I thought Michael Linder had made a real impact covering City Hall since he joined KABC in March, 2009 and opened a bureau in the civic center. He made the station a player in the City Hall media corps, he was a leader in the recent effort to get easy access for reporters restored, and he was blogging and tweeting. Nonetheless, he got the call Friday that his services are no longer needed. Layoffs at the station prompted by a new program director, it seems. In 2008, he was let go in the KNX/KFWB downsizing. "To quote Cronkite: '...and so it goes,'" he says stoically.