Other bad fires
Sometimes I write a post, but I don’t publish it. I guess I’m not a run-to-win blogger.
I’ve had a lot of new visitors lately, looking for news about fires in general, or maybe confusing Griffith Park with San Diego. (And in spite of the fact that I seem to have disappeared from Technorati. Thanks, guys. I don’t understand what a ping is, either.) I feel so bad about so many people losing their homes, and so many many acres of land burned.
One thing I can’t stand is how the news makes such a production, such a drama and such a spectacle of destruction. I turned my head away from all the photos and video footage. Don’t you think this dramatic coverage just might encourage the lowest of the low, arsonists, that fire is a very effective attention-getter? Grrr.
Donna Barstow
Griffith Park is the 2nd biggest park in the US, and I'm just the person to investigate it! I've lived here for over 25 years. I was part of the PROS Committee in Griffith Park Neighborhood Council and am on the Housing & Tenants Rights Committee in the Silver Lake NC. I'm in the LA Press Club, and you can find some of my articles in the LA Weekly and the Los Feliz Ledger. I'm a cartoonist for Parade Magazine, The New Yorker, LA Times, Slate, & most major media. Questions and contacts welcome.