I can choose not to listen to the lousy radio hosts.

I agree doran. I don’t think I’ve listened to more than a couple of minutes of any of these “radio hosts”.

You mean LA didn’t just appear out of thin air in the ’80s?

“The city on fire is L.A.’s greatest image of itself.”
Joan Didion

Reinvention. That’s the L.A. promise. No looking back, only looking forward and ahead. With an instilled Chandler-esque philosophy like that, is there any wonder that historical preservation is not a priority in Los Angeles?

And the less said about morning DJs, the better. Those chuckleheads just pollute the airwaves with inanities to blot out the white noise of the L.A. landscape, effectively and ironically contributing to the white noise themselves.

I have to say, this is a battle of midgets, two choices so inconsequential to daily life and sanity in a mass-mediafied, diasporized, constantly-evolving city that I just can’t summon the bile to call either of them worse than the other.

Many Angelenos come from somewhere else, and don’t always plug in fast enough to suit the natives. Oh, well. You want expert fellow citizens with whom to debate the finer points of local history, spend some time in Philadelphia or New York City and see how long you last.

As for radio – it’s all kind of a ho-hum blur in the morning. Even NPR feels lackluster half the time, and they’re not even DJ’ing. All I can say is that Indie should never have canned Dickie Barrett. I miss the ornery cuss and everything he played.

Imagine if you can understand Spanish as well and have to listen to the vulgarities of El Cucuy, that is especially irritating! He wouldn’t last in English language radio. But my vote goes to those that would erase history in one casual swoop.

Two words (sort of) from a pesky transplant: KPCC & KCRW.

Everything I know about LA history, I learned from Joan Dideon, Patt Morrison and Huell Howser. And I’m open to suggestions.

I dunno Mack. I think its not so much that transplants don’t always plug in fast enough, its that they often assume LA has no history to speak of, or aren’t even interested in learning — first thing they want to do is head down to the Sunset strip or to the beach. Meh. I roll my eyes at such people.

BTW, Markland, I think that’s eminent domain, not imminent.

Thanks Darleene!

I’m 110% positive that bad morning shows are a nationwide epidemic and not an LA-specific problem. In fact, we’re lucky to have as much variety as we do.

Another obvious vote by the Militant!

btw, it’s really spelled “Eminem Domain.”

DJs will be transfered, fired, retired; and we can always pop in a CD. But the loss of our lovely buildings will be a blight forever.

I vote for lack of respect for history. The loss of the Ambassador Hotel was a damn shame.