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- Kevin Smith won his appeal to lower the rating of his new flick, "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," from an NC-17 to an R rating. Elizabeth Banks and (who else...) Seth Rogan star in the film which will most likely bring A LOT of skin to the big screen.
- A drunk driver jumped a curb in Riverside and killed a mother right in front of her husband and son. The accident happened last night around 10 p.m. and the suspect, Javier Hernandez, was put behind bars in lieu of a $150,000 bail
- Here ye, Here ye! All illegal aliens (even those who have lost in immigration court). You have a get out of jail free card, please go directly to Santa Ana or San Diego and deport yourself.
- UCLA students, did you hear the gunshots this morning? If you were freaking out, we guess you skipped class the past few weeks and didn't get the memo on the mock FBI training drill.
- Police were called to an Encino house for an assault call this morning. A man involved in the assault emerged from the house brandishing a shotgun, forcing officers to fatally shoot him.
- Yeah, Journalists are unhappy that their newspapers are dying and the Blogs are taking over, but they don't have to be jerks about it. "Journalist," Dana Parsons, spewed cliché after cliché after cliché about how lazy bloggers would cover city council meetings today in his twice-a-week column.
NEWS FLASH – Ironic Timing News - LAist Editor/BLOGGER/Sherman Oaks City Council member, Zach Behrens, just posted his coverage of a city council meeting today. Strange, there's no detection of disinterest or signs of a Blogger that can't seem to pinpoint the meeting's facts...
- So what's the deal with the high speed train that was the hot-button a while back? All the facts, past and present can be found on the California High Speed Rail Blog.
- A bar fight left one man dead and his murderer is now going to serve 12 years behind bars. Jean Pierre Castellanos, 24, of Anaheim was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter of Timothy Matthew Jones, 26, at Big Shots Billiards on May 7, 2007.
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I agree that LAist has the city covered much better than the Times does (cutting the entire editorial staff probably had an effect)
But calling Dana Parsons a "jerk" for having a pretty valid opinion (that no UNPAID blogger would be giddy to go cover city hall and education board meetings on a regular basis) is playing into exactly his gripe about some blogs.
The "4th Estate" needs this coverage as a check of the government and I think it's valid to suggest that it's a shortcoming of a lot of these bloggers that keep beating down newspapers.
I'm saying that the article stereotypes Bloggers as stoners that would be excited about covering a city council meeting, but would fall asleep if they didn't see a fist fight while they were there.
I'm not saying that Parsons himself is a jerk, I'm sure he's a nice fellow, just that the article is way off. Sure, some blogs function as he said, but the LAist staff reports the facts when the facts need reporting, and we dish the saucy news when that feels right. Besides, who doesn't like a little sauce with their plate of news?
His blogger is supposedly a soccer mom, as evidenced by the last line, but it sounds more like a 14-year old -- or what Parsons imagines 14 year-olds sound like.
Of course, that may be his actual internal monologue as he sits through the meetings.