CNET News.com: "The Los Angeles Times has suspended the blog of a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who posed as an Internet reader to defend his column and attack his conservative foes.
The Times learned of Michael Hiltzik's multiple identities from another blogger, Patrick Frey, who was slammed by the columnist under a pseudonym. Frey, author of the Patterico's Pontifications blog , traced the writer back to Hiltzik's computer.
In 1999, Hiltzik won a Pulitzer Prize at the Times with Chuck Philips for a series exposing corruption in the music industry.
Hiltzik's spat with Frey marked the latest salvo in the battle between bloggers and the mainstream media who they accuse of arrogance and bias under the guise of objectivity.
In a statement, the Times said: 'Hiltzik admitted Thursday that he posted items on the paper's Web site, and on other Web sites, under names other than his own.' "
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