I guess the media liked the Jerusalem Post story we posted this morning — on a LAPD deputy chief saying the two rabbis shot here in October were "kneecapped" in an apparent dispute with organized crime. Minutes after our 10:30 post, the LA Weekly's blog grabbed it, followed by a blog item by the L.A. Times at 1:30 p.m. in which deputy chief Michael Downing backs off the Israeli organized crime angle a bit. Sometime in there AP moved a story too. None of the follows mentioned where the reporters or their editors spotted the story, in that media way.

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11:55 AM Wed | Bruce Beresford-Redman, the former TV producer accused of killing his wife Monica in Cancun in 2010, has been taken from the federal detention center downtown is said to be en route to Mexico.
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