New to my blog world: Newstalgia

Newstalgia is a sister blog of the politics site Crooks and Liars, putting up audio links from current news events, distant events and popular culture with a Los Angeles bias. The latest post is a 1970 KNX documentary called The Silent Minority, about Mexican Americans and pegged at least in part to the Chicano uprisings in East Los Angeles. In Rashmon on the Mediterranean, creator Gordon Skene aggregates audio links to six English language reports on Israel's raid on that flotilla head for Gaza. He's also got stuff like Hoyt Axton playing live for rock deejay B. Mitchell Reed on Pasadena's late, great KPPC-FM (not KPCC) in 1968. "My primary purpose is to offer historic materials pertaining to current issues. It's all from my archive of over 150,000 sound recordings going back to 1898," Skene says.