Readers of the Los Angeles Times were furious in 2003 when — only five days before the California gubernatorial election — the paper published a stunning investigation in which 16 women accused candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger of groping them.
They canceled their subscriptions in droves and accused the paper of trying to help Democrat Gray Davis' campaign.
Basically, he said, it came down to this: The story wasn't ready until it was ready.
As Washington reels from the disclosure in The Washington Post on Sunday of Christine Blasey Ford's detailed allegation of an attempted rape by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh decades ago, those who remember can hear echoes of 2003.