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Topic: Letters Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 6/28/2007 8:18:56 PM
Title: Too much hand-wringing; too little reporting
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
From BOB NORMAN, New Times Broward-Palm Beach: Jon Wiener's story in The Nation about L.A. Weekly is exactly the kind of thing Village Voice Media is moving the alt-weekly world away from -- presumptuous ideological essays with much teeth-gnashing and hand-wringing but very little actual reporting or common sense. Wiener repeatedly laments that all VVM wants to do is mean old "hit pieces" on big shots. Yes, the very same big shots who run the city and spend the tax money. Look at L.A. Weekly's home page (www.laweekly.com) right now and scroll down to "News." The stories are, indeed, "relentlessly local." In other words, they illuminate what's going on in the city rather than what's happening in some political pontificator's head. Wiener wants more of the latter, along with endorsements, those poor bastard children of bored editorial writers. But here, boiled down, is what Wiener really wants: a lock-step lefty rag rather than a vital, clear-eyed city newspaper. The people of Los Angeles, of course, are better off that he's doing without. And they can still subscribe to The Nation for all the professional left-wing POV they can handle. Who says the media is dead in America? [Permalink]

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