Mr. Gary Lee

Only in Los Angeles will you find a Homicide Blog in the LA Times.

I woke up this morning too enjoy the slight overcast that comes with living in West Los Angeles. Perfect weather for a nice cup of coffee and and perfect time to catch up on my weekly RSS feeds and world news.

Anyways, the Los Angeles Times website has been going through a pretty drastic transition over the past year. Their online publication, more than any other I have seen, has taken huge steps towards incorporating blogs into their website, giving their “journalists” easier ways to publish their opinions and content. It’s a nice tribute to blogs, but personally, I agree with Mark Cuban’s opinion that the mass media should stay the mass media and stop trying to use the “innocence” of blogging to garner more readers. You are who you are, so stop trying to perpetrate. Case in point - the Homicide Report.
To be honest with you, I’m not exactly sure how I feel about the Homicide Report just yet. Part of me feels the LA Times is exploiting the deaths of these people, but then what media group doesn’t profit off the suffering of others? Drama sells and I guess it applies to the online world as well. I mean, I did click on the report and went through the 18 homicides that happened in a one week period. I did see the ads for high blood pressure and an initiative to give $9 Billion to California kids for education.

Anyways, I thought I’d just pass along a new discovery for me today. If you’re interested, they also have a Homicide Map (powered by Google) that shows what spots to avoid if you’re ever visiting Los Angeles.

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