Mayor Sam Ends Silence on "New" LA Times Website

For some reason my views on the recent redesign of the Los Angeles Times website seem to be hotly sought.

This type of issue is really the beat of Pulitizer Prize claiming uberjournalist Kevin Roderick, best known to Mayor Sam readers as Westside White Guy, former denizen of America's suburb and the Westside's most prominent suburban Anglo crank. Indeed, Old Kev was all over the breaking news like a 13 year old blogger jumping on the latest Hannah Montana CD release.

So what's my opinion? I could care less. The Times has thrown up something looks like a free Wordpress theme and that's supposed to make a diference?

The bottom line is that template be damned, THE OLD GRAY HAG ON SPRING STREET's best days are behind it. Changing the website layout does nothing if the content continues to stink and that the Times continues to cede actual coverage of City politics to the Jill Stewart era LA Weekly which continues to shine and continues to serve.

All of that being it is what it is, it certainly is appropos that the cosmetic change to a newspaper website is a trending topic in vapid and vacuous LA.