L.A. Times national correspondent Scott Gold receives some nice praise from Editor John Carroll in the aftermath of Carroll's memo critiquing a recent Gold story on abortion for displaying liberal bias. Reports Howard Kurtz (low in column) in the Washington Post: Carroll says that Gold "is in the best of standing at the paper." But, Carroll insists, he will continue to battle "unintentional bias creeping into stories" that "often tends to be from the liberal side." Gold himself (misnamed 'Steve' by Kurtz) adds about the now-famous Carroll memo: "It's a legitimate and reasoned discussion of journalistic values and ethics, but regrettably I'm not going to discuss it."

Kurtz's story properly attributes the memo's circulation to L.A. Observed, as have the other media outlets and major websites that cited the memo. Not so the L.A. Daily News, whose editors apparently edited an item in this morning's paper by City Hall columnist Rick Orlov to read "The memo, which has been circulated on numerous Web sites..." Hmm....