Just months after a Toledo Blade news carrier was raped while doing her paper route, WTOL.com (Toledo's CBS affiliate, News 11) is reporting that an elderly Toledo Blade paper carrier was savagely beaten in an attempted robbery last Friday morning.

The Blade didn't cover the news of this employee's victimization on its website, just as it did not cover news that two of the paper's night employees were robbed in the Blade parking lot just a few months ago, within view of the "No Guns" signs on all of the doors of the Blade building in downtown Toledo.

From the story:

Phyllis Rhoton, 71, won't forget the mugging that put her in the hospital. "I have a couple broken bones in my cheek," said Rhoton.

Every day before dawn, Phyllis and friend Peggy Harestad work together delivering The Toledo Blade on some of Toledo's meanest streets including: Noble, Yates, Moore, Page, Peck, Sherman, Baker and Bancroft.

Peggy bags and rolls the papers -- Phyllis drives and delivers them. But Friday morning just after 6:00, Phyllis says something unspeakable happened. "I came to the car and was about to get in. All of the sudden from nowhere this guy came up and started hitting me in the face ... then he knocked me on the ground, hit me in the chest, kicked me in the leg."

Phyllis recalls how the suspect kept demanding money and searching her clothes. "I kept telling him I don't have it. I don't carry any when I work on the route," said Rhoton.