Patricia Guadalupe, executive editor of the Capitol Standard, has now responded to Big Head DC’s request for comment on Josie’s Hearn’s omission allegation, and she says she is shocked by Hearn’s assertion.

“I’d like to know what the hell she says was omitted,” Guadalupe tells BHDC. “Who the hell knows why she is saying I omitted anything. I’d love to see what the hell it is because it wasn’t anything I sent. I sent you everything on it.”

Guadalupe believes this situation boils down condescending attitudes coming out of the Politico. “That things that we in the Hispanic press have been covering ad nauseum for so long are suddenly ‘discovered’ by the so-called mainstream press and we have to ‘credit’ and bow to them, oh, and here are some stories I’ve worked on to help with with the coverage that you’ve been doing all these years? Please!” she exclaims.

Furthermore, Guadalupe says that Hearn has falsely accused the newspaper La Opinión — the largest Spanish-language daily in the nation with a Washington correspondent who’s been at it since 1993 — of regularly not crediting her for reporting on the Loretta Sanchez story, even while La Opinión and others in the Spanish-language press “do these stories all the time.”

“Maybe the bigger issue here is the enormous lack of diversity in these places,” says Guadalupe. “If Politico and others had more Spanish-speaking reporters who already have a radar on this issues, they wouldn’t all of a sudden ‘discover’ the issue and credit would go where credit is due.”

Fresia Rodriguez Cadavid, founder and publisher of The Capitol Standard, believes that Hearn’s behavior toward Guadalupe has been “unprofessional.”

“Politico did not break this story and Patricia was merely pointing that out politely and with tact,” says Rodriguez Cadavid. “Josie’s claims are baseless.” She adds, too, that the Standard was created as a venue to inform others on news related to Capitol Hill and Hispanics that mainstream media ignore.

“We are all suppose to be professionals and in this business honesty is of the utmost importance,” says Rodriguez Cadavid. “It’s a disgrace to our profession and to one’s integrity to attempt to pass someone’s work off as your own.”

Hearn has told BHDC that she cannot provide details on the alleged omissions because she doesn’t have them on her Blackberry. “I’m leaving for a business trip,” she reports. She promises to provide details after she returns.

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