Jump to full article: Glendale (CA) News-Press, 2008-08-22
Author: Jason Wells
Intro: The Pasadena Weekly reporter who touched off a furor three weeks ago, when it came to light that his June 26 article had incorrectly attributed comments about Armenian smokers to Mayor John Drayman, appeared live on cable television Thursday to defend his work.
The reporter, Carl Kozlowski, was unassuming in his defense on "The Larry Zarian Show" on Thursday while discussing an error in which he incorrectly attributed to Drayman comments Councilman Dave Weaver allegedly made about Armenian smokers and the influence they may have in opposing Glendale's upcoming smoking ordinance.
The cover article was widely circulated at City Hall about five weeks after it published and set off what has been an ongoing protest of Weaver by the Armenian community, especially the Armenian National Committee Glendale Chapter.
"I certainly didn't want to cause a rift in the community," Kozlowski said.
But he did not back down from Weaver's accusations that the Pasadena Weekly had distorted his comments and had fabricated some of the indirect quotations in the article. . . .
A week prior, Councilman Ara Najarian said he was satisfied with Weaver's explanation that his comments were taken out of context and that he never tied opposition to the coming smoking ordinance to Glendale's "substantial" Armenian smoking population.
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