For this week the news source I read was The LA Times. The first thing that I noticed about this site was that it was really similar to how the layout of the Washington Post. Another thing that I noticed right away was how many articles pertained to LA and California in general which was a large difference from the more politically concerned newspapers that I have been covering. While this makes sense since the LA Times is a city newspaper, I was stilled surprised by the lack of U.S. political stories that were being featured on the front page. That being said, the LA Times still does cover a wide array of topics such as Sports, World, Business, Entertainment etc.

One of the featured articles that caught my eye was “21-year-old man arrested in Dodger fan’s slaying, S.F. police say.” This caught my eye because I had heard about the stabbing the day before was surprised to see such a quick arrest in the matter. The article doesn’t go into much detail but does say that Michael Montgomery has been arrested for the slaying of Jonathan Denver in a night club after the Dodgers game Wednesday night. According to Police the stabbing occurred after some “back-and-forth” about the Giants and Dodgers which broke out into a physical fight. After the first fight, a second fight erupted and this is when the stabbing occurred.

Another article that interested me was “Appele’s iOS 7 launch was so massive it almost broke the Internet.” Last Wednesday apple rolled out their iOS7 update. On that day Blue Coat Systems based in Sunnyville saw traffic to Apple.com tripled, from 4% of total traffic, to 13%.  This huge increase of traffic was seen almost everywhere, with one customer saying that traffic to Apple.com spiked to 32%. By Monday Apple released a statement that 50% of all devices have upgraded to iOS7.

A third article that was interesting was “As GOP infighting persists, threat of government shutdown heightens.” Being one of the few political articles being featured I wanted to see how it was being covered. The article briefly covers the issue at hand and gives some detail as to what is going on. The federal government is facing a shutdown as the deadline for renewing funding for the federal government is approaching. President Obama keeps repeatedly telling the House that he will not negotiate on raising the debt ceiling. Speaker of the House John Boehner however says that this is not how government works. Also since the ACA (Affordable Care Act) passed House Republicans have been trying to delay or remove all-together ACA. Their latest attempt is pushing back the start of ACA by one year and also other debt bill legislation. Also despite the Senate desire to finish this quickly  Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) delayed the vote till Friday thru the means of pseudo-filibusterers. The last time the government shut down was in 1996, where national parks and museums throughout the country were closed.

This news outlet is definitely for residents of LA and to an extent most of California as well. Their main audience I think are people in their 20′s and up, who have more interest in what is happening locally rather than what is occurring throughout the nation. Many of the articles lacked depth and didn’t fully cover the story or provide sufficient background information, rather many seemed to assume prior knowledge of what was going on in the article. Because of this I found it difficult to get into any of the stories that were being covered because I was having to click on links that brought me to older news stories to fill me in as I was reading the one I was interested in. This really made it hard for me to like the LA Times and I would say that the LA times is not for me.