California notes

California notes Some bad California papering news. The LA Daily News is closing two of its suburban bureaus, including the one I used to work at in Santa Clarita, (and wrote the first Newhall Ranch water story.)

Earlier this summer, another paper way back on my resume, the Bakersfield Californian, said it was closing its Sacramento bureau, also for financial reasons.

Rather scary that there's now more media than ever, yet no one wants to pay for the mundane watchdog local journalism that's really at the heart of a democracy.

But in other Bakersfield news, Korn played a free show at the South Street Seaport in NYC yesterday evening. In their pre-show 5-question interview with J&R Music, they give the props to my (and their) hometown. (Though in language mother won't approve of.) Labels: bakersfield, medi