{"id":2494,"date":"2007-10-24T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2007-10-24T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T20:07:00","slug":"rating-the-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2494","title":{"rendered":"Rating the Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Living in Los Angeles as I do, I&#8217;ve been following the fires with interest. During the day, this has primarily been through the local media. Some observations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/breakingnews\/\">Los Angeles Times Breaking News Blog<\/a> has been reasonably good for the general, but poor on the specifics. It does, however, have a good set of links. Their main writing has been so-so, usually lagging significantly. I also don&#8217;t like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-firemap,0,6179739.htmlpage\">their interactive map<\/a> as well.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/\">The Daily News<\/a> (SF Valley) has been weak. They have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/ci_7243279\">a good interactive map<\/a>, but the main stories aren&#8217;t that informative.\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/\">San Diego Union Tribune<\/a> has done a great job. They have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/firemap\/\">an excellent interactive map<\/a>, that even goes so far as to show where burned houses are. They also have a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/firemap\/structuresburned.html\">burned homes and businesses<\/a>, as well as lots of other closings.\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-signal.com\/\">Santa Clarita Signal<\/a> is primarily stories, although they do have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-signal.com\/?module=displaystory&#038;story_id=51344&#038;format=html\">a continuous update page<\/a> that is pretty good. No maps.\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venturacountystar.com\/\">Ventura County Star<\/a> does a good job for Ventura Cty. They do provide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venturacountystar.com\/news\/fires\/\">good closure information<\/a>.  No map.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/\">The Press-Enterprise<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/digitalextra\/metro\/wildfires\/\">a special section with lots of information<\/a>, with good links to maps.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/\">The Orange County Register<\/a> has a lot of good information, including maps.<\/ul>\n<p>In terms of other media, as usual, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knx1070.com\/\">KNX 1070<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kfwb.com\/\">KFWB 980<\/a> have been the radio stations of choice. TV is interesting. Variety has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117974520.html?categoryid=14&#038;cs=1\">a good article<\/a> noting how stations moved things around. KNXT (oops) <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs2.com\/\">KCBS-2 and KCAL-9<\/a> switched off coverage, as did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxla.com\/myfox\/\">FOX-11<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.my13la.com\/\">MY-13<\/a>. When one went to primetime, the other did news. Others shuffled off programming (either news or entertainment, as appropriate) to secondary digital channels. I think this is a new trend, and may end up being a good thing after the digital TV switch. It certainly shows the benefits of media consolidation in markets, something I would have never thought of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living in Los Angeles as I do, I&#8217;ve been following the fires with interest. During the day, this has primarily been through the local media. Some observations: The Los Angeles Times Breaking News Blog has been reasonably good for the general, but poor on the specifics. It does, however, have a good set of links. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2494\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[133,123,273],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-brush-fires","tag-disasters","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}