Welcome to a new and improved version of our Santa Barbara Media Blog, which we intend to be a weekly look at the goings on at various media in Santa Barbara. The original Santa Barbara Media Blog was born out of the News-Press turmoil of summer 2006, and became one of the most popular facets of Independent.com in the early days. We let it slip away many moons ago, but now we’re bringing it back, reenergized and ready to rock the mediascape.
From personnel changes and lawsuits to controversial topics and national attention about a local issue, this blog will be a quick, easy-to-read report on some of the media happenings around town – from radio to online to television to print, including critiques of our own publication when appropriate – and should help keep ourselves and other media accountable. Since our eyes and ears can’t be everywhere at once, please feel free to shoot us an email at news@independent.com with tips for the blog. Enjoy.
* Our first week of doing this certainly had plenty of oomph to it, mostly thanks to Daily Sound columnist Gina Perry. Perry’s column from last Thursday – and the paper’s editor and publisher Jeramy Gordon subsequent apology – has struck a chord both locally and in media circles outside.