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Chinatown - Live from the Blogosphere
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I sit here in a packed black box, sweating heavily and more than a little staggered by the depth and breadth of this crowd and their work.
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I feel lucky to be starting something like LAVoice.org in a rich, roiling subculture poised to change the face of interpersonal communication in Los Angeles and beyond.
And more than a little humbled.
I decided to launch LAVoice.org not out of a self-driven need to fling my own shades of digital graffiti up on the wall, but because I'm pretty much fed up with the way most traditional L.A. media ignores the real stories in this city.
Face it, you're just not being served by the traditional media - the Times, the Weekly, the six miserable TV news stations and handful of interesting, but often unheard radio stations don't give a damn about what's happening in your neighborhod unless it's on fire, bleeding or scandalous.
And admit it - you've been long dissatisfied by these outlets' hamhanded "journalism" and utter inability to cover your own back yards - the strip joint or liquor store fouling up the main drag, the shitty schools barely babysitting your neighbors' kids, the creeping gentrification that threatens to shutter the family business that's been next door for decades. You just sort of forgave Los Angeles media and either settled for a constant diet of gang slaying coverage, high-speed chases, brainless Hollywood gossip and generally meaningless information re-purposed from the national news - or you just gave up and quit watching, reading, listening.
You're not alone, and you're no longer powerless to rage and scream to anyone and everyone about what's going on in the myriad layers of this mind-bogglingly electric city.
Whether you have a blog, or you'd like to start an L.A.-centric blog here, this site is for all of you.
Read the FAQ.
Channel the voltage that runs through you when you hear inept and arrogant City Hall politicians, see soul-shaking Silverlake and Downtown culture, bake in stultifying 101/110 traffic jams, trip over used rubbers in the deteriorating Santa Monica Mountain wilderness, struggle to find anything worth caring about in the patrician white-bread L.A. media outlets.
Register now - (use your own name - this site is for and by real newscasters of L.A., so make yourself famous). Write your ass off. Click "submit news", and if you're on-topic, factual and put some passion and music into your words, we'll patch you through.
Tell your friends. LAVoice.org is yours.
- mack -
mack@lavoice.org
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| Posted by: Admin on Saturday, February 15, 2003 - 11:21 PM
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