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He was forced to resign as Los Angeles Times Managing Editor due to his denial of the Armenian Genocide.
Life
He graduated from DePauw University in 1971. He was an investigative reporter for The Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Times. He is the former Managing Director of Kroll’s Business Intelligence Washington office.
He was the Istanbul bureau chief for the New York Times. He was the managing editor of The Los Angeles Times, from 2005 to 2007. He developed close links to the Turkish government when serving as the Istambul Bureau chief for the New York Times. He was chief investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Armenian Genocide denial
See also: Armenian Genocide denialAs the Los Angeles Times Managing Editor, Frantz blocked a story on the Armenian Genocide in April 2007 written by Mark Arax, allegedly citing the fact Arax was of Armenian descent and therefore had a biased opinion on the subject. Arax, who has published similar articles before, has lodged a discrimination complaint and threatened a federal lawsuit. Frantz, who did not cite any specific factual errors in the article, was accused of having a bias obtained while being stationed in Istanbul, Turkey. Harut Sassounian, an Armenian community leader, accused Frantz of having expressed support for denial of the Armenian Genocide and has stated he personally believed that Armenians rebelled against the Ottoman Empire, an claim commonly used to justify the killings. Arax demanded a public apology from Frantz, which he declined to comment on. Frantz resigned from the paper not long afterward on July 6th, possibly due to the mounting requests for his dismissal. He returned to Istanbul after leaving.
US Government
He is the current Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs.
See also
Awards
- 1993; 1998 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting finalist
- 1993 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
Works
- Celebration, U.S.A.: living in Disney's brave new town. Macmillan. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8050-5561-0.
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{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|authors=ignored (help) - The Nuclear Jihadist. Grand Central Publishing. 2008. ISBN 978-0-446-50560-4.
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References
- ^ LA Observed: Armenian genocide dispute erupts at LAT
- ^ Managing editor to leave The Times
- ^ The Armenian Genocide Debate Pits Moral Values Against Realpolitik
- Frantz, Douglas; Collins, Catherine. The New York Times http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/f/douglas_frantz/index.html.
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- "Douglas Frantz, former Times managing editor, to be chief investigator for Senate panel". Los Angeles Times. January 8, 2009.
- Genocide Controversy Leads L.A. Times Managing Editor To Resign
- http://www.pulitzer.org/faceted_search/results/frantz
External links
- http://www.npr.org/books/authors/137924273/douglas-frantz
- http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=26343
- "Douglas Frantz Gets Interviewed By NYT in the Presence of a Press Aide", Fish Bowl LA, Tina Dupuy, February 3, 2009
- http://twelvebooks.com/authors/frantz-collins.asp