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Fire coverage on television
Mary McNamara is the Los Angeles Times television critic and a resident of La Crescenta. After years of observing how disasters are covered on TV, she was disappointed at how few images she could find of the fires, despite having been evacuated this weekend.
Mary McNamara is the Los Angeles Times television critic and a resident of La Crescenta. After years of observing how disasters are covered on TV, she was disappointed at how few images she could find of the fires, despite having been evacuated this weekend.
You can find her critique of television coverage of the Station Fire here.
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Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times television critic