L.A. Times Journalist Apologizes For Controversial LSU, UCLA Column, ‘Failed Miserably’

The journalist who referred to as LSU girls’s basketball gamers “dirty debutantes” in a column final week has simply issued an apology … admitting, “I have failed miserably in my choice of words.”

Ben Bolch wrote the controversial piece for the Los Angeles Times final Friday … and it was nearly instantly met with backlash. Critics slammed the best way he in contrast the UCLA girls’s basketball staff to “milk and cookies,” whereas calling the Tigers’ gamers “Louisiana hot sauce” — insisting it was each racist and misogynistic.

In actual fact, LSU coach Kim Mulkey and her star participant, Hailey Van Lith, have been so offended by the article, they each used parts of their conferences with media members over the weekend to rail in opposition to Bolch.

The reporter clearly heard the criticism … as a result of on Monday afternoon, he issued a prolonged mea culpa.

In his assertion — which he posted to his X web page — Bolch acknowledged his phrases have been “not appropriate” and have been “deeply offensive.”

“It was not my intent to be hurtful,” he stated, including his employer didn’t require him to put in writing the be aware, “but I now understand that I terribly missed the mark.”

He concluded his message by writing, “I am deeply sorry.”

For the L.A. Times’ half, they swapped out parts of Bolch’s unique article … writing in an editor’s be aware, “The original version of this commentary did not meet Times editorial standards. It has been edited to remove language that was inappropriate and offensive.”