Malibu on fire! Round the clock coverage!

[Liberal_in_LA]

The Iraqis should pray for such attention - When Malibu is on fire, which happens almost every year, LA news gives it round the clock coverage.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fire22oct22,0,4878345.story?coll=la-home-center

[graywarrior]

1. Should we send them aid?

[DesertRat]

2. Well I appreciate the link

I surfed around the cable news networks and couldn't find any coverage. I've lived through a wildfire evacuation and know how terrifying it can be. My heart goes out to the residents there.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. there's a live video feed on the LA times website... link here.

http://video.latimes.com/global/video/popup/pop_player.asp?vt1=l&d1=0&ClipId1=mms%3A//a1386.l1913847831.c19138.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1386/19138/v0001/reflector%3A47831&LiveURI=mms%3A//a1386.l1913847831.c19138.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1386/19138/v0001/reflector%3A47831&h1=L.A. Times live video from KTLA&at1=Newstream&LiveURITitle=L.A.%20Times%20live%20video%20from%20KTLA&LaunchPageAdTag=Newstream&playerVersion=1&hostPageUrl=http%3A//www.latimes.com/&rnd=11530572

[cboy4]

3. You're not suggesting the fire doesn't deserve the

coverage it's getting in LA are you? :shrug:

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. no, just commenting on how news resources are parceled out. Our media gets hysterical when rich ...

people affected by something.

[cboy4]

19. I was afraid we were going down this road. I got into

it with people who showed a complete lack of empathy over the people involved in the Lake Tahoe fire this year because they were supposedly nothing but rich people living in vacation homes and they should have known better living in the forest.

It doesn't matter. Losing a home to a fire and being in a panicked situation of having to evacuate a wildfire, especially when it's dark out is terrifying. It doesn't matter whether you're rich or poor and it doesn't deserve to happen to anyone.

The media would be all over this story if large sections of South Central LA were on fire or East LA was on fire or Inglewood was on fire or Compton was on fire.

So let's not exaggerate. I'm familiar with LA news and they cover whatever is breaking.

You know that if you live there.

[Liberal_in_LA]

22. I disagree. Other areas would not get this type of coverage. And I live in LA.

[cboy4]

24. Baloney!!

Wrong.

[Liberal_in_LA]

25. Right.

[cboy4]

28. Yea, you know everything because you live in LA right?

You've spoken to the news directors at the local stations and they've told you that they cover fires depending on which neighborhoods they occur in. :eyes:

Please, you don't know what you're talking about.

[Liberal_in_LA]

30. I have my opinions based on my experiences living LA. Good lord, libs are a combative bunch.

[cboy4]

33. If you want to avoid conflict, then don't start

provocative threads based on information you know nothing about.

[Booster]

37. Bullshit. I live here and everytime there's a fire no matter where

it is ALL L.A. stations cover it all day long.

[Cleita]

5. Wait until there is a car chase. Fire won't be important anymore.

Used to live in LA. Don't miss the TV news at all.

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. Is your icon from StarTrek-Voyager? ??? Surely not your favorite star trek? :-(

[Cleita]

15. I liked all of them, although I really liked "Deep Space Nine".

The avatar comes from DU. I'm pretty technologically challenged when it comes to creating avatars. Voyager had some good stories although, I haven't seen it until now that it's showing on Spike TV. My satellite doesn't carry UPN so I missed half of Deep Space Nine, all of Voyager and the one with Scott Blakula that is now on Sci-Fi channel when they first ran, so I'm just catching up. LOL!

[Liberal_in_LA]

21. Deep space nine was pretty good. Voyager was the beginning of the end.

Enterprise put the nail in the coffin of the star trek franchise. Next Gen was my favorite..just watched all 7 years again...in order. :-)

[Cleita]

27. Next Generation had the best characters although Dax

was a pretty interesting one from Deep Space Nine. I also liked the fact that the federation was interfacing with a civilian world like in real life. There would never have been a Ferengi barkeep on next generation's Enterprise.

[Liberal_in_LA]

32. Agreed - . Other interesting races: shapeshifters and their slave/master relationship with

other races... the race controled by "the white" and the race that acted on their behalf.

Ferengis got on my nerves.

[Cleita]

34. That's because they were Republican and Libertarian types

where business ruled everything, like all the rules of acquisition could come out of Karl Rove's playbook. LOL.

[SyntaxError]

35. Deep Space 9, really?

That was the only Star Trek I didn't like... Can't say why.

[Liberal_in_LA]

36. maybe you didn't like it b/cuz it was the only one set on a stationary set - not on a ship?

Or maybe it contained too much ferengi (that was my beef).

[Cleita]

38. Different strokes for different folks.

Maybe it was too much like real life for some people with not as much techno-babble.

[SyntaxError]

39. That might be it...

Then again, I may not have gave it a fair shot at the time. Any idea if any stations air reruns of it?

[Cleita]

40. On cable TV, Spike TV airs it late at night MTW every week. n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

42. DS9 has more of a story arc than the other star-treks... get DVDs from Blockbuster & view in order

[Buzz Clik]

6. If Malibu had been burning continuously for 5 years, no one would care much.

[Disturbed]

9. Same as last year but worse this time.

Maybe people should stop building house there?

[Buzz Clik]

13. No kidding. Quite similarly:

Do not build:

• on the high hurricane impact areas
  
• on the flood plains of the Mississippi
  
• in the crater of a volcano
  
• in a dragon's lair
  
• in the depths of hell

[LibDemAlways]

10. I live in a much humbler suburb 20 minutes from

Malibu. There's another fire close to where I live which is getting zero coverage. If the Malibu fire is contained, they'll probably start taking an interest in the less glam blazes.

[Richard D]

11. I live a few miles from this fire . . .

. . . and believe me, round the clock coverage is appreciated. I just wish I could get sound on this, no idea why it's not working.

Not everyone who lives in this area is rich, by the way. Some of the communities that are in danger are mobile home parks. Lot's of us live in guest houses and some of the older more fire-prone homes are just a tad above shacks.

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. No sound because KTLA stopped commenting. Had sound earlier.

You'll probably get sound again when KTLA news goes on the air at 5pm. Right now you are just getting a live feed from their helicopter.

[Richard D]

17. OK

Had the same problem with ABC's live feed. No sound. The radio stations work fine.

[Richard D]

18. Not working

I tried some of the other LA times video's and they for sure had audio but it wouldn't play. No idea why. I've got Media Player 11 installed.

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. KFI radio has live coverage...audio only

http://www.kfi640.com/pages/streaming.html

[cboy4]

23. It was the same way during the Lake Tahoe fire

this summer.

People saying all of the victims were rich and were only losing vacation homes, so who cares.

That couldn't have been further from the truth.

I hate how socioeconomics is always brought up during wildfires.

It's beyond unfortunate.

[kurth]

16. Please pray for Pepperdine University and Kenneth Starr's new home

Actually... Let them burn.

[DS1]

20. Oh those poor villagers! Should we do something?

[Mutineer]

41. Not everyone who lives in that area is a multi-millionaire.

Okay, most of them are, but still. And no matter how much money you have, I wouldn't wish losing a lifetime of possesions or a home on anyone. Well, maybe BushCo but other than that, no.

[catzies]

26. SERIOUSLY. Here in Ventura County we're choking in the Castaic smoke

But MALIBU IS BURNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I did always want to go to the Castle, though. And now it's burned to the ground. Ah well.

[Liberal_in_LA]

29. You had the misfortune of experiencing a fire on the same day as MALIBU!

[cboy4]

31. The Castaic fire is not threatening any homes. That's

why it's not receiving the same coverage.

[Bluebear]

43. Imagine. LA news covering a major fire in the LA metropolitan area.

:silly: