January 12, 2023 • 26 mins
In this week's episode of Living in the Sprawl: Southern California's Most Adventurous Podcast, host Jon Steinberg shares his list of the 10 defining Southern California sprawl newspapers. His list includes: The Long Beach Telegram, The Press Enterprise, Santa Barbara Newspress, Desert Sun, San Bernadino Sun, Freno Bee, Bakersfield Californian, Orange County Register, San Diego Union Tribune and Los Angeles Times.
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(00:09):
Hello.
And welcome to anotherinstallment of living in the
sprawl.
So the California's mostadventurous podcast.
I am as always your humble hostand correspondent.
My name is John Steinberg.
And I am joined by my lovely andextraordinarily talented
producer slash my wife.
(00:29):
Her name is Lisa Steinberg.
We are the team here at sprawlenterprises.
Ready to bring you yet?
Another exciting foray into thevast expansive terrain.
That we have lovingly dubbed thesprawl.
On today's show.
An examination.
Of newspapers.
That's right.
(00:50):
We kind of travel back in time,at least a little bit.
To better understand thehistory.
Of Southern California's many.
Uh, claimed newspapers.
Now, this is one of thoseepisodes that almost feels like
something of a historic Relic.
(01:11):
While.
We're actually recording it.
The ever changing nature.
Of the newspaper business.
May at some point in the not toodistant future.
Cease to exist.
Entirely.
Those of you that have seencitizen Kane recognize the power
once held.
By media barons, like.
(01:33):
William Randolph Hearst.
Or if you listened.
To a recent episode of thispodcast.
Touching upon.
Activities within the Coachellavalley, you might remember.
A little fellow by the name ofWalter.
Annenberg.
Who wants presided over thePhiladelphia Inquirer?
Elon Musk.
(01:53):
Now the owner of Twitter.
Mark Zuckerberg at MettaFacebook.
Larry Page and Sergei Brin.
Of Google.
These are the figures that havereplaced the hearse of the
world.
And as of this recording, Thecurrent state.
Of the media.
Is in major flux.
(02:14):
Outlets.
Emerge almost overnight.
And then seemingly vanishwithout a trace.
The daily beast, Huffingtonpost.
NPR.
Axios.
Who knows if these companieswill even be around in 15 years.
Indeed who knows what the medialandscape will look like.
(02:37):
However.
You decide to evaluate thefuture.
There's no denying theimportance of newspapers.
And at least the first hundred.
And 40 years of.
Californian life.
So today.
We hearkened back.
To a time.
When the newspaper reignedSupreme.
(03:00):
We look at the definitive 10Southern California.
Newspapers.
That you should be familiarwith.
Let's begin.
And number 10, the long beachtelegram.
With a circulation hovering.
Just under 50,000.
This seaside paper.
(03:20):
Has its complex roots.
Situated in the fertile grounds.
Of south Los Angeles county.
In addition to.
Covering.
All of the events.
That happen.
In the LBC.
The papers.
Coverage extends to much of the5, 6, 2.
(03:41):
Examining.
The stories.
From many of the gateway cities,these being Bellflower,
Lakewood.
Artesia.
Hawaiian gardens.
Signal hill.
And Norwalk.
Now the paper cut it's sportsdepartment a number of years
ago.
You'll notice a trend here as wediscuss.
(04:04):
The newspapers.
There's a lot of cutting.
Uh, foot.
So unfortunately the sportsdepartment had to go.
So that the paper could continueits work.
In the long beach region.
Originally.
Established.
To consolidate two competingpapers.
(04:25):
The long beach.
Telegram has been around in itscurrent form since about the
1930s.
Doing some really terrific work.
In reporting.
The cataclysmic.
Earthquake from 1933.
And the paper has led thecharge.
In charting.
Long beaches, ascent.
(04:45):
Into a top 50 American city interms of population.
Not quite orange county.
Definitely not Los Angeles, longbeach is very much its own
thing.
And if you don't believe me,just read the fine work.
Still going strong.
From the long beach.
(05:06):
Telegram.
And number nine, the pressenterprise.
This publication comes to us.
From the fine folks residingwithin the inland empire,
Riverside specifically.
The paper has been around forabout a hundred years.
Again, This is the title thatstems from the consolidation of
(05:31):
multiple newspapers that decidedto join factions.
The paper.
Has.
Uh, circulation of under.
100,000.
But with the growing migration.
Toward the inland empire.
There's going to be a need.
For a paper to document.
(05:52):
All of the happenings in theRiverside area.
Now the paper has a Pulitzerprize to its credit.
It does compete.
With a couple of nearbypublications representing.
Portions of the much largerinland empire.
But Riverside's.
Press enterprise.
(06:13):
Has catered.
To multiple generations.
Of inland empire residents.
And though.
The medium has changeddrastically.
And we'll continue.
To change even more in thecoming years, there can be no
doubt.
That the paper will survive insome form to better.
(06:34):
Outfit.
Riverside residents with all ofthe necessary news and tidbits
from around the area.
And number eight, the SantaBarbara news press.
The paper's been around.
For just under a hundred yearsor so.
With the circulation of under40,000.
(06:57):
What the paper.
Lax in overall numbers in morethan makes up for in its
quality.
News coverage.
When oil.
Slippage occurs.
In Santa Barbara county.
This paper is there.
To provide.
Santa Barbara county residents.
With.
All of the requisite.
(07:18):
News that they need to be awareof.
In order.
To be.
Fully cognizant.
Coastal residents.
Covering.
Stories from all over thecounty.
There's been a real focus.
On the emerging viticultural.
Destination.
That's cropped up in the past 15years.
(07:40):
In the Santa Ynez valley.
When the movie sideways cameout, it really put.
The wine from Santa Ynez on themap in this falls.
Within the creative coverage.
Of the Santa Barbara.
News enterprise.
Many prominent residents.
Have called.
(08:00):
The Santa Barbara area home.
The ridiculously over the topmansions in Montecito.
Can I test.
To the fact that wealthy folks.
Like to live.
In Santa Barbara just far enoughaway from Los Angeles to avoid.
The proverbial Smaug, but closeenough.
(08:21):
If business calls at least acouple of times a week.
When.
Uh, mass shooting.
Took place.
At UCS B in 2014.
The paper was there providing.
On the ground coverage.
That the nation.
Also consumed.
When a recent.
Swim instructor.
(08:42):
Ran a foul of the law.
The paper was there.
Chronicling events.
So that the rest of the worldcould follow along.
Santa Barbara is anindispensable part of the
sprawl.
And as such.
It should come as no surprise.
That it contains a world classnewspaper, all its own.
(09:06):
Number seven, the desert sun.
The paper's based in PalmSprings, but covers.
The entirety of the Coachellavalley.
And this once.
Resort.
Community.
Has now become.
An extraordinarily popularplace.
For those priced out.
Of Los Angeles real estate torelocate.
(09:29):
As we discussed on our Coachellavalley episode.
No longer is this region.
Merely a playground.
For the rich.
And successful.
Indeed.
Hundreds of thousands of people.
Live within the Coachellavalley.
And of course.
There's a need for a localnewspaper when you've got that
(09:50):
kind of population.
In the fold.
With increasing attention, paidto the region.
Because of stagecoach in theCoachella valley music and arts
festival, the desert sun.
Has a front row seat.
As it covers.
Two of the 10, most popularmusic festivals in the United
States.
(10:11):
Also.
With continued attention paid.
To the global climate crisis.
The California desert.
Has an important role to play.
And promoting.
Awareness.
Around the subject of globalwarming.
And number seven, never sleep onthe desert.
(10:31):
They've got some great reportinggoing on at the desert sun At
number six, the San Bernardinosun.
Notable.
For.
It's coverage.
Of the mass shooting in 2015.
The San Bernardino sun.
Serves.
As a platform.
For residents of one of thenation's largest counties.
(10:55):
To have.
A suitable outlet.
Outsiders.
To the Southern Californiasprawl.
May see the whole SanBernardino, Riverside Imperial
county.
Mojave desert thing as just likeone large.
Mass of desert.
But as we've.
(11:15):
Attempted to illustrate on thishere podcast.
Each of these.
Regions has.
A character that is distinctlyAltone.
In San Bernardino.
The sun.
Carries the day.
Highlighting.
Local.
Civic achievements.
While simultaneously holding.
Those in power accountable.
(11:37):
With the circulation.
Of under a hundred thousand.
Gone are the days.
When newsstands appeared.
On every other block in adowntown setting.
Now the majority of the action.
Has entered the digital space.
So even though.
Many San Bernardino, sunreaders.
(11:59):
Are literally opening up anewspaper.
And perusing.
The publication.
Page by page.
The ease and accessibility.
Of online content.
Offers.
A wider array of interestedparties, access to the day's top
stories.
Taking pride.
(12:19):
For the 9 0 9.
And documenting.
All of the remarkable eventsthat happen on a weekly basis.
It's the San Bernardino sun.
And number five, the Fresno bee.
The paper covers.
Everything.
Going on.
In a Fresno county.
(12:40):
And this by default.
Places a great deal ofimportance.
On the paper.
It covers.
The agricultural side.
Of California.
The best.
That any.
Paper of its size.
Can possibly.
Attempt to do.
For folks unaware.
California central valley iswhere.
(13:03):
A large portion.
Of the nation's agriculturalwork is done.
Basically all of the nationsraisins come from Fresno county.
The almonds.
Many of the grains.
And certainly those Fresnochilies, that top chef
contestants love so much.
They are all part of this vastagricultural region.
(13:27):
But it's not solely.
Comprised of agriculturalrelated endeavors.
Fresno.
Has become a thriving.
Metropolis.
That on population alone findsitself in the nation's top 50.
American cities.
Fresno state.
Has emerged as.
(13:48):
A real Juul in the Californiastate.
The school system.
If you consider.
The Southern California sprawl.
As having a couple of differentcapitals.
San Diego being.
The capital of the extremesouth.
Los Angeles being another.
Riverside.
And San Bernardino to others.
(14:09):
Well, you would have to go aheadand say that Fresno is without
question the capital of thecentral valley that we have.
Chosen to cover on this podcast.
And.
With the title of the centralValley's Capitol.
Comes the responsibility ofcovering everything that happens
within that particular region.
(14:31):
Fresno bee.
Owned.
By the same family.
That helped to start theSacramento bee.
And this is obviously where thetitle.
For the paper came from.
What happens in the centralvalley?
The goings on with.
All of the stuff that we export.
And cultivate.
In this part of the state.
(14:53):
It's vital to have.
A paper of some renown covering.
All of the events thattranspire.
In the 5, 5, 9.
And number four, theBakersfield, California.
This is one of the sprawlsoldest newspapers.
Tracing its roots.
(15:14):
Back to the 19th century.
When life was primitive.
Laws were negligible.
In the spirit of explorationstill ruled the day.
The Bakersfield California hasled the charge.
On such stories as the.
Child sexual abuse scandal inthe 1980s.
(15:38):
As well as.
The horrific crimes of Vincentbrothers.
And it's had a hand inpromoting.
That iconic Bakersfield countrymusic sound.
The circulation of theBakersfield Californian.
Hovers around 30,000.
But it's a rabbit 30,000interested.
(15:59):
In all of the happenings andgoings on.
Within.
Kern county.
In addition.
To monitoring.
The city of Bakersfield.
The Bakersfield, California, andalso.
Covers.
News from surrounding citieswithin curd county.
Like.
Delano.
McFarlane.
To hatch a P.
(16:20):
And Oildale.
And whether it's country music.
Or highlighting.
The large number of Basquerestaurants.
Within Bakersfield.
You can count.
On the Bakersfield, California,and to have all angles covered.
As.
The paper staff does their best.
To catalog.
(16:40):
The life in times.
Of Kern.
Counties.
Most distinguished the cityNumber three, the orange county
register my hometown paper.
This one has a circulation.
Of around a hundred thousand.
It of course covers.
Events.
From Anaheim.
(17:01):
Wayne A.
Park.
Garden Grove Fullerton.
All the way down to SanClemente.
Mission VA ho.
And of course, Irvine.
Since I grew up reading theorange county register.
I have a bit of a soft spot forthe paper.
They publish.
And insert call of the dailypilot.
(17:23):
Which highlighted.
Events happening.
Within coastal orange county.
So every time.
Corona Del Mar played Lagunabeach.
In high school football, thedaily pilot would be there to
cover.
The contest.
But the story of the orangecounty register.
Is really a story.
Of this improbable.
(17:44):
Second.
Media market.
That emerged.
Out of the shadows of LosAngeles.
The fact that Disneyland islocated in Anaheim.
And Knott's Berry farm point apark.
Made orange county.
Newsworthy long before.
The tourists discovered.
Coastal cities like Newport andLaguna beach.
(18:09):
There's a whole lot of money.
In orange county.
A ton of influence.
Major corporations areheadquartered in the area.
And this of course necessitatesthe need.
For report Taj.
In order to hold.
These folks accountable.
The register has a Pulitzer toits credit.
(18:30):
A national reputation.
And serves as.
A more conservative.
Option.
For Southern Californiaresidents.
That have grown disillusionedwith the LA times.
Representing for orange countynoticed that I didn't call it
the OSI.
I'll never call it the OSIbecause no one who's actually
(18:52):
from there.
Would refer to it in that way.
The orange county register.
Holding it down for the 9 4 9and 7 1 4.
And number two, the San Diegounion Tribune covering all of
the events.
From one of the nation's 10largest.
Cities.
(19:13):
San Diego county.
As a whole.
Runs.
From the border.
With Mexico.
Near San Ysidro and Imperialbeach all the way.
North toward communities likeOceanside in Carlsbad.
And there's a ton of news to becovered.
Within this gargantuan.
(19:33):
Terrain of space.
The paper was acquired alongwith the Los Angeles times a
couple of years back.
By the same publisher.
And the paper has doneincredible work.
Particularly, so.
During the awful fire seasons.
In the early aughts.
(19:54):
People envisioned San Diego as aparadise.
It's claimed that L Frank bomb.
Was inspired to create theEmerald city.
While staying at the hotel DelCoronado.
San Diego.
Is home to top gun, the pod res.
SeaWorld Lego land.
And a whole.
(20:16):
Lot of corruption.
And malfeasance.
In addition to.
Super high profile crimes.
Like the murder of DanBroderick.
There have been countlessfinancial indiscretions.
Chronicled by the San Diegounion Tribune.
Over it's 10 plus decades ofexistence.
(20:40):
A beacon of truth, telling.
A throwback.
To the days.
Of expert.
Journalism.
San Diego's.
Paper of note.
Covers all the importantstories.
Stemming.
From this truly importantregion.
We need someone.
To cover everything that'shappening.
On the U S Mexico border.
(21:02):
And the San Diego union Tribunehas done.
And I'm sure we'll continue todo.
An extremely.
Laudable job.
In this regard.
And at number one, could therereally be any other?
It has to, of course be the LosAngeles times.
(21:23):
Covering.
All of the happenings fromAmerica's second largest city,
the times.
Has gained.
A reputation.
As one of the country's mostthorough.
And upstanding publications.
At the outset of this episode, Imentioned William Randolph
Hearst.
And he actually had a competing.
(21:45):
Newspaper.
Which used to battle.
The LA times for supremacy inthe city of angels.
But her.
Herald examiner.
Halted publication in the late1980s.
Thereby ending.
The rain.
Of.
One of America's.
Most salacious.
(22:06):
Formal newspapers.
The Herald examiner buildingstill very much exists.
It's in downtown.
It's a couple blocks away fromthe staple center.
I used to live in apartmentright around the corner.
And just knowing that this.
Massive structure.
Existed and was where.
Much of the Todd Titillatingjournalism.
(22:28):
That came from Los Angeles.
Just knowing.
That it happened at this massivebuilding, which is still very
much there.
Well, that kind of tells youall, you need to know.
The LA times.
Conversely.
Has expanded.
It's scope of expertise in thepast couple of decades, honing
(22:48):
in.
On issues that were previouslythought to be frivolous.
Like food.
Jonathan gold.
Earned.
The nation's first.
Pulitzer prize.
For food writing.
While working for the times.
He started an annual traditionof ranking, the city's best, 101
(23:10):
restaurants.
A tradition that still goes on,even though he passed away a
couple of years ago.
And has really set the tone.
For other markets.
In the state.
Orange county register.
Now they have their best, uh,San Francisco has their best.
And we can credit JonathanGolan, his work with the times
(23:31):
for expanding.
Restaurant appreciation.
It's also.
With the LA times.
That.
Coverage.
Of scandals, like the Rampartscandal in the early two
thousands.
The bribery schemes.
In the city of bell.
The pay for play.
(23:51):
With city council members.
All of those.
Vital stories.
Have been Chronicle in depth.
In the pages of the LA times.
Additionally the paper also.
Has a first rate collection.
Of writers that cover the arts,given that this is in fact
(24:12):
Tinseltown.
Critics like Kenneth Turan.
And others have.
Done remarkable work.
Covering.
The cities.
Largest homegrown industry.
From.
Jim Murray to bill The papers,sports call and.
I have been second to none.
As.
(24:33):
Life continues to change.
Some would say evolve.
In Southern California.
The Los Angeles times.
Is without question the mosttrusted.
Paper.
Detailing.
How it all happened.
At number one.
On our list of the definitive.
Southern California newspapers.
(24:54):
It is of course, the Los Angelestimes.
And that's going to do it foranother episode of the show.
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(25:59):
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And I'm joined as always by mylovely, an immensely talented
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Her name is Lisa Steinberg.
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(26:21):
So the California's mostadventurous podcast talk again
real soon
Hello.
And welcome to anotherinstallment of living in the
sprawl.
So the California's mostadventurous podcast.
I am as always your humble hostand correspondent.
My name is John Steinberg.
And I am joined by my lovely andextraordinarily talented
producer slash my wife.
(00:29):
Her name is Lisa Steinberg.
We are the team here at sprawlenterprises.
Ready to bring you yet?
Another exciting foray into thevast expansive terrain.
That we have lovingly dubbed thesprawl.
On today's show.
An examination.
Of newspapers.
That's right.
(00:50):
We kind of travel back in time,at least a little bit.
To better understand thehistory.
Of Southern California's many.
Uh, claimed newspapers.
Now, this is one of thoseepisodes that almost feels like
something of a historic Relic.
(01:11):
While.
We're actually recording it.
The ever changing nature.
Of the newspaper business.
May at some point in the not toodistant future.
Cease to exist.
Entirely.
Those of you that have seencitizen Kane recognize the power
once held.
By media barons, like.
(01:33):
William Randolph Hearst.
Or if you listened.
To a recent episode of thispodcast.
Touching upon.
Activities within the Coachellavalley, you might remember.
A little fellow by the name ofWalter.
Annenberg.
Who wants presided over thePhiladelphia Inquirer?
Elon Musk.
(01:53):
Now the owner of Twitter.
Mark Zuckerberg at MettaFacebook.
Larry Page and Sergei Brin.
Of Google.
These are the figures that havereplaced the hearse of the
world.
And as of this recording, Thecurrent state.
Of the media.
Is in major flux.
(02:14):
Outlets.
Emerge almost overnight.
And then seemingly vanishwithout a trace.
The daily beast, Huffingtonpost.
NPR.
Axios.
Who knows if these companieswill even be around in 15 years.
Indeed who knows what the medialandscape will look like.
(02:37):
However.
You decide to evaluate thefuture.
There's no denying theimportance of newspapers.
And at least the first hundred.
And 40 years of.
Californian life.
So today.
We hearkened back.
To a time.
When the newspaper reignedSupreme.
(03:00):
We look at the definitive 10Southern California.
Newspapers.
That you should be familiarwith.
Let's begin.
And number 10, the long beachtelegram.
With a circulation hovering.
Just under 50,000.
This seaside paper.
(03:20):
Has its complex roots.
Situated in the fertile grounds.
Of south Los Angeles county.
In addition to.
Covering.
All of the events.
That happen.
In the LBC.
The papers.
Coverage extends to much of the5, 6, 2.
(03:41):
Examining.
The stories.
From many of the gateway cities,these being Bellflower,
Lakewood.
Artesia.
Hawaiian gardens.
Signal hill.
And Norwalk.
Now the paper cut it's sportsdepartment a number of years
ago.
You'll notice a trend here as wediscuss.
(04:04):
The newspapers.
There's a lot of cutting.
Uh, foot.
So unfortunately the sportsdepartment had to go.
So that the paper could continueits work.
In the long beach region.
Originally.
Established.
To consolidate two competingpapers.
(04:25):
The long beach.
Telegram has been around in itscurrent form since about the
1930s.
Doing some really terrific work.
In reporting.
The cataclysmic.
Earthquake from 1933.
And the paper has led thecharge.
In charting.
Long beaches, ascent.
(04:45):
Into a top 50 American city interms of population.
Not quite orange county.
Definitely not Los Angeles, longbeach is very much its own
thing.
And if you don't believe me,just read the fine work.
Still going strong.
From the long beach.
(05:06):
Telegram.
And number nine, the pressenterprise.
This publication comes to us.
From the fine folks residingwithin the inland empire,
Riverside specifically.
The paper has been around forabout a hundred years.
Again, This is the title thatstems from the consolidation of
(05:31):
multiple newspapers that decidedto join factions.
The paper.
Has.
Uh, circulation of under.
100,000.
But with the growing migration.
Toward the inland empire.
There's going to be a need.
For a paper to document.
(05:52):
All of the happenings in theRiverside area.
Now the paper has a Pulitzerprize to its credit.
It does compete.
With a couple of nearbypublications representing.
Portions of the much largerinland empire.
But Riverside's.
Press enterprise.
(06:13):
Has catered.
To multiple generations.
Of inland empire residents.
And though.
The medium has changeddrastically.
And we'll continue.
To change even more in thecoming years, there can be no
doubt.
That the paper will survive insome form to better.
(06:34):
Outfit.
Riverside residents with all ofthe necessary news and tidbits
from around the area.
And number eight, the SantaBarbara news press.
The paper's been around.
For just under a hundred yearsor so.
With the circulation of under40,000.
(06:57):
What the paper.
Lax in overall numbers in morethan makes up for in its
quality.
News coverage.
When oil.
Slippage occurs.
In Santa Barbara county.
This paper is there.
To provide.
Santa Barbara county residents.
With.
All of the requisite.
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News that they need to be awareof.
In order.
To be.
Fully cognizant.
Coastal residents.
Covering.
Stories from all over thecounty.
There's been a real focus.
On the emerging viticultural.
Destination.
That's cropped up in the past 15years.
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In the Santa Ynez valley.
When the movie sideways cameout, it really put.
The wine from Santa Ynez on themap in this falls.
Within the creative coverage.
Of the Santa Barbara.
News enterprise.
Many prominent residents.
Have called.
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The Santa Barbara area home.
The ridiculously over the topmansions in Montecito.
Can I test.
To the fact that wealthy folks.
Like to live.
In Santa Barbara just far enoughaway from Los Angeles to avoid.
The proverbial Smaug, but closeenough.
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If business calls at least acouple of times a week.
When.
Uh, mass shooting.
Took place.
At UCS B in 2014.
The paper was there providing.
On the ground coverage.
That the nation.
Also consumed.
When a recent.
Swim instructor.
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Ran a foul of the law.
The paper was there.
Chronicling events.
So that the rest of the worldcould follow along.
Santa Barbara is anindispensable part of the
sprawl.
And as such.
It should come as no surprise.
That it contains a world classnewspaper, all its own.
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Number seven, the desert sun.
The paper's based in PalmSprings, but covers.
The entirety of the Coachellavalley.
And this once.
Resort.
Community.
Has now become.
An extraordinarily popularplace.
For those priced out.
Of Los Angeles real estate torelocate.
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As we discussed on our Coachellavalley episode.
No longer is this region.
Merely a playground.
For the rich.
And successful.
Indeed.
Hundreds of thousands of people.
Live within the Coachellavalley.
And of course.
There's a need for a localnewspaper when you've got that
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kind of population.
In the fold.
With increasing attention, paidto the region.
Because of stagecoach in theCoachella valley music and arts
festival, the desert sun.
Has a front row seat.
As it covers.
Two of the 10, most popularmusic festivals in the United
States.
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Also.
With continued attention paid.
To the global climate crisis.
The California desert.
Has an important role to play.
And promoting.
Awareness.
Around the subject of globalwarming.
And number seven, never sleep onthe desert.
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They've got some great reportinggoing on at the desert sun At
number six, the San Bernardinosun.
Notable.
For.
It's coverage.
Of the mass shooting in 2015.
The San Bernardino sun.
Serves.
As a platform.
For residents of one of thenation's largest counties.
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To have.
A suitable outlet.
Outsiders.
To the Southern Californiasprawl.
May see the whole SanBernardino, Riverside Imperial
county.
Mojave desert thing as just likeone large.
Mass of desert.
But as we've.
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Attempted to illustrate on thishere podcast.
Each of these.
Regions has.
A character that is distinctlyAltone.
In San Bernardino.
The sun.
Carries the day.
Highlighting.
Local.
Civic achievements.
While simultaneously holding.
Those in power accountable.
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With the circulation.
Of under a hundred thousand.
Gone are the days.
When newsstands appeared.
On every other block in adowntown setting.
Now the majority of the action.
Has entered the digital space.
So even though.
Many San Bernardino, sunreaders.
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Are literally opening up anewspaper.
And perusing.
The publication.
Page by page.
The ease and accessibility.
Of online content.
Offers.
A wider array of interestedparties, access to the day's top
stories.
Taking pride.
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For the 9 0 9.
And documenting.
All of the remarkable eventsthat happen on a weekly basis.
It's the San Bernardino sun.
And number five, the Fresno bee.
The paper covers.
Everything.
Going on.
In a Fresno county.
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And this by default.
Places a great deal ofimportance.
On the paper.
It covers.
The agricultural side.
Of California.
The best.
That any.
Paper of its size.
Can possibly.
Attempt to do.
For folks unaware.
California central valley iswhere.
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A large portion.
Of the nation's agriculturalwork is done.
Basically all of the nationsraisins come from Fresno county.
The almonds.
Many of the grains.
And certainly those Fresnochilies, that top chef
contestants love so much.
They are all part of this vastagricultural region.
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But it's not solely.
Comprised of agriculturalrelated endeavors.
Fresno.
Has become a thriving.
Metropolis.
That on population alone findsitself in the nation's top 50.
American cities.
Fresno state.
Has emerged as.
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A real Juul in the Californiastate.
The school system.
If you consider.
The Southern California sprawl.
As having a couple of differentcapitals.
San Diego being.
The capital of the extremesouth.
Los Angeles being another.
Riverside.
And San Bernardino to others.
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Well, you would have to go aheadand say that Fresno is without
question the capital of thecentral valley that we have.
Chosen to cover on this podcast.
And.
With the title of the centralValley's Capitol.
Comes the responsibility ofcovering everything that happens
within that particular region.
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Fresno bee.
Owned.
By the same family.
That helped to start theSacramento bee.
And this is obviously where thetitle.
For the paper came from.
What happens in the centralvalley?
The goings on with.
All of the stuff that we export.
And cultivate.
In this part of the state.
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It's vital to have.
A paper of some renown covering.
All of the events thattranspire.
In the 5, 5, 9.
And number four, theBakersfield, California.
This is one of the sprawlsoldest newspapers.
Tracing its roots.
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Back to the 19th century.
When life was primitive.
Laws were negligible.
In the spirit of explorationstill ruled the day.
The Bakersfield California hasled the charge.
On such stories as the.
Child sexual abuse scandal inthe 1980s.
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As well as.
The horrific crimes of Vincentbrothers.
And it's had a hand inpromoting.
That iconic Bakersfield countrymusic sound.
The circulation of theBakersfield Californian.
Hovers around 30,000.
But it's a rabbit 30,000interested.
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In all of the happenings andgoings on.
Within.
Kern county.
In addition.
To monitoring.
The city of Bakersfield.
The Bakersfield, California, andalso.
Covers.
News from surrounding citieswithin curd county.
Like.
Delano.
McFarlane.
To hatch a P.
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And Oildale.
And whether it's country music.
Or highlighting.
The large number of Basquerestaurants.
Within Bakersfield.
You can count.
On the Bakersfield, California,and to have all angles covered.
As.
The paper staff does their best.
To catalog.
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The life in times.
Of Kern.
Counties.
Most distinguished the cityNumber three, the orange county
register my hometown paper.
This one has a circulation.
Of around a hundred thousand.
It of course covers.
Events.
From Anaheim.
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Wayne A.
Park.
Garden Grove Fullerton.
All the way down to SanClemente.
Mission VA ho.
And of course, Irvine.
Since I grew up reading theorange county register.
I have a bit of a soft spot forthe paper.
They publish.
And insert call of the dailypilot.
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Which highlighted.
Events happening.
Within coastal orange county.
So every time.
Corona Del Mar played Lagunabeach.
In high school football, thedaily pilot would be there to
cover.
The contest.
But the story of the orangecounty register.
Is really a story.
Of this improbable.
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Second.
Media market.
That emerged.
Out of the shadows of LosAngeles.
The fact that Disneyland islocated in Anaheim.
And Knott's Berry farm point apark.
Made orange county.
Newsworthy long before.
The tourists discovered.
Coastal cities like Newport andLaguna beach.
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There's a whole lot of money.
In orange county.
A ton of influence.
Major corporations areheadquartered in the area.
And this of course necessitatesthe need.
For report Taj.
In order to hold.
These folks accountable.
The register has a Pulitzer toits credit.
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A national reputation.
And serves as.
A more conservative.
Option.
For Southern Californiaresidents.
That have grown disillusionedwith the LA times.
Representing for orange countynoticed that I didn't call it
the OSI.
I'll never call it the OSIbecause no one who's actually
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from there.
Would refer to it in that way.
The orange county register.
Holding it down for the 9 4 9and 7 1 4.
And number two, the San Diegounion Tribune covering all of
the events.
From one of the nation's 10largest.
Cities.
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San Diego county.
As a whole.
Runs.
From the border.
With Mexico.
Near San Ysidro and Imperialbeach all the way.
North toward communities likeOceanside in Carlsbad.
And there's a ton of news to becovered.
Within this gargantuan.
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Terrain of space.
The paper was acquired alongwith the Los Angeles times a
couple of years back.
By the same publisher.
And the paper has doneincredible work.
Particularly, so.
During the awful fire seasons.
In the early aughts.
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People envisioned San Diego as aparadise.
It's claimed that L Frank bomb.
Was inspired to create theEmerald city.
While staying at the hotel DelCoronado.
San Diego.
Is home to top gun, the pod res.
SeaWorld Lego land.
And a whole.
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Lot of corruption.
And malfeasance.
In addition to.
Super high profile crimes.
Like the murder of DanBroderick.
There have been countlessfinancial indiscretions.
Chronicled by the San Diegounion Tribune.
Over it's 10 plus decades ofexistence.
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A beacon of truth, telling.
A throwback.
To the days.
Of expert.
Journalism.
San Diego's.
Paper of note.
Covers all the importantstories.
Stemming.
From this truly importantregion.
We need someone.
To cover everything that'shappening.
On the U S Mexico border.
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And the San Diego union Tribunehas done.
And I'm sure we'll continue todo.
An extremely.
Laudable job.
In this regard.
And at number one, could therereally be any other?
It has to, of course be the LosAngeles times.
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Covering.
All of the happenings fromAmerica's second largest city,
the times.
Has gained.
A reputation.
As one of the country's mostthorough.
And upstanding publications.
At the outset of this episode, Imentioned William Randolph
Hearst.
And he actually had a competing.
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Newspaper.
Which used to battle.
The LA times for supremacy inthe city of angels.
But her.
Herald examiner.
Halted publication in the late1980s.
Thereby ending.
The rain.
Of.
One of America's.
Most salacious.
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Formal newspapers.
The Herald examiner buildingstill very much exists.
It's in downtown.
It's a couple blocks away fromthe staple center.
I used to live in apartmentright around the corner.
And just knowing that this.
Massive structure.
Existed and was where.
Much of the Todd Titillatingjournalism.
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That came from Los Angeles.
Just knowing.
That it happened at this massivebuilding, which is still very
much there.
Well, that kind of tells youall, you need to know.
The LA times.
Conversely.
Has expanded.
It's scope of expertise in thepast couple of decades, honing
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in.
On issues that were previouslythought to be frivolous.
Like food.
Jonathan gold.
Earned.
The nation's first.
Pulitzer prize.
For food writing.
While working for the times.
He started an annual traditionof ranking, the city's best, 101
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restaurants.
A tradition that still goes on,even though he passed away a
couple of years ago.
And has really set the tone.
For other markets.
In the state.
Orange county register.
Now they have their best, uh,San Francisco has their best.
And we can credit JonathanGolan, his work with the times
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for expanding.
Restaurant appreciation.
It's also.
With the LA times.
That.
Coverage.
Of scandals, like the Rampartscandal in the early two
thousands.
The bribery schemes.
In the city of bell.
The pay for play.
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With city council members.
All of those.
Vital stories.
Have been Chronicle in depth.
In the pages of the LA times.
Additionally the paper also.
Has a first rate collection.
Of writers that cover the arts,given that this is in fact
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Tinseltown.
Critics like Kenneth Turan.
And others have.
Done remarkable work.
Covering.
The cities.
Largest homegrown industry.
From.
Jim Murray to bill The papers,sports call and.
I have been second to none.
As.
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Life continues to change.
Some would say evolve.
In Southern California.
The Los Angeles times.
Is without question the mosttrusted.
Paper.
Detailing.
How it all happened.
At number one.
On our list of the definitive.
Southern California newspapers.
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It is of course, the Los Angelestimes.
And that's going to do it foranother episode of the show.
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