Power out in LA; local media in major meltdown

Earlier today, a reader Instant Messaged me noting that the site was down. He wondered if it was related to the blackouts here in LA. Well, my neighborhood was spared the blackout. And by the time I set off to run a few errands, the power was back on across LA, but when I tuned into talk radio, every station was covering the hour or so loss of power as if it were a major catastrophe. LA Blogger Matt Szabo noted that the news media snapped “into car-chase mode as the melodrama unfolded.” I highly recommend Matt’s coverage of the “catastrophe,” for as he so wisely observes, “Few things are funnier than watching an inconvenience covered as a crisis.”