Los Angeles Times "Over the weekend, it was a virtual, and inexplicable, news blackout," writes
Mary McNamara. "Granted, Ted Kennedy's funeral preempted many stories, but hours before my neighborhood was placed under mandatory evacuation, I could find nothing, NOTHING, about the fire on any TV station, local or 24-hour news. It was as if it wasn't happening, except it was, because I could see it, sheets of flame rippling in the dark, just down the street and over the rise."
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Politician: "The media let people down during a horrendous fire"
