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What if Angelenos wrote about New York the way The New York Times writes about us?

By AirTalk Staff

Published May 14, 2015

Traffic makes its way through Times Square on March 23, 2006 in New York City. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) New York and Los Angeles have the most polluted air in the U.S.

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What if Angelenos wrote about New York the way The New York Times writes about us?

“Southern Californians are overcoming their fears of subway germs, and reversing the American directive to go west. They're finding that New York is more than a capitalist prison that runs on the fumes of the finance industry and nostalgia for CBGB.”

So wrote Ann Friedman in a satirical op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, imagining what it would be like if Angelenos wrote about New York in the way The New York Times has a tendency to write about Angelenos.

What’s behind the notorious east coast bias? And could it ever exist in the reverse?

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Ann Friedman, a writer in Los Angeles who is not moving to Brooklyn

Hey, LA listener!

What if Angelenos wrote about New York the way The New York Times writes about us?

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