The Santa Cruz Sentinel complains that East Coast media doesn't take California seriously: "When an actor runs for governor, suddenly the East Coast media wakes up. There goes wacky California, they say. An actor running for governor. Then the news shows scratch and claw to get the movie star-turned-political leader on their primetime shows. We wish these East Coasters would realize that a true picture of California is far from the La-La Land they all imagine. In their stories, they show us images of Californians in hot tubs and interviews with Gary Condit and unending coverage of Laci Peterson. We have a news story for them: California and its people live their lives in far more complexity than that." Those wacky Californians! Pretending like there's more to their state than hot tubs and Gary Condit! Isn't it cute?
Honig: maybe Californians aren't the wacky ones [Santa Cruz Sentinel via Romenesko]