If you walk around Los Angeles and ask folks what they think about the Downtown News , a lot of responses will be that they are nothing but a promotional rag to the highest bidder , yet these past couple of weeks we have seen Ryan Vaillancourt do actual Journal ism in the stories he has submitted and published about the skid row 30n3 basketball league. It is amazing to see that the howls from downtown residents about actual reporting on what is going on downtown other than the promotional stories about those who pay for advertising in the Downtown News is coming to pass. I am just glad we are seeing the reemergence of a downtown staple becoming a real place to read stories about downtown and not just the politically correct tied to advertiser stories. Ryan has my utmost respect ... keep them coming... we want to read stories about life in Downtown and not just who has the best new residential building... He also has qualified himself for an actual Los Angeles Town Crier Ambassador of...
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