Clinton Videotape Now on Los Angeles Times Web Site.

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 1998--

LATimes.com carries Clinton videotape and additional grand

jury legal documents along with continuous updates,

analysis and bulletin board discussions

The videotape of President Clinton's grand jury testimony in the Monica S. Lewinsky case, along with thousands of new pages of documents and appendices on the Lewinsky investigation, are available today on the Los Angeles Times' Web site at http://www.latimes.com.

Complementing the release of the Clinton videotape is extensive coverage and analysis from The Times plus bulletin board discussions, photo clips, and audio from Times Political Analyst Ron Brownstein and California members of Congress.

"The nation is facing a serious political crisis and each person wants to make up his or her own mind," said Michael Parks, editor and executive vice president of the Los Angeles Times.

"We want to make all the information available as quickly as possible to help them do that. Our Web site is the most appropriate place to publish such a large volume of information. We also think it is the most appropriate place to offer material of such a sensitive nature that might not be suitable for all readers."

Containing more than four hours of questioning, the Los Angeles Times Web site contains the unedited videotape of Clinton's August 17 grand jury testimony at http://www.latimes.com.

Also available on the site today are the 2,800 page grand jury documents covering statements by Lewinsky to the FBI and grand jury, some of her letters and e-mail, Secret Service records relating to the President's and Lewinsky's movements on certain days, a chart detailing Lewinsky's trips to the White House and public events, memos, telephone records, White House logs and news clippings.

LATimes.com is including a viewers discretion statement advising readers of the videotape's and report's sexually explicit materials. Reports from Congress and the White House will be updated on LATimes.com as events unfold.

While LATimes.com is carrying the complete versions of the Starr documents and videotape, both print and Web editions of The Times are providing full coverage of the story. To find the full story on the Clinton scandal along with the Starr Report, Clinton's videotape and documents of appendices at http://www.latimes.com.

LATimes.com has received numerous awards for its extensive content and online discussion forums. The site has been inducted into PC Magazine's Hall of Fame for making the magazine's Top 100 Web sites list all five times that the list has been published.

The Los Angeles Times Washington bureau, headed by Bureau Chief Doyle McManus, was named one of the two best newspaper bureaus in Washington by Press Critic Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institution. The bureau's staff includes 35 reporters.

The Los Angeles Times Web site coverage of the Clinton videotape is at http://www.latimes.com.