Best OC Media Battle of 2007...

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Posted by Gustavo Arellano in Main, Naranja News, Politics

December 16, 2007 8:35 AM

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...isn't the everlasting battle between the Weekly and Orange County Register, Register staff and the new publisher, or even the Hatfield-McCoy madness that happened at this rag earlier this year and still persists (read a coming Hey You! for further details!) but the fight between two of our favorite local blogs: The Liberal OC and Orange Juice!. Late last year, The Liberal OC stole South County Democratic stalwart Gila Jones from Orange Juice!; this week, they swooped in and offered SanTana activist Sean Mill a home after Mill had a falling-out with head Juicer Art Pedroza. Liberal OC blogger Chris Prevatt announced the new development but couldn't resist taking a shot at Pedroza; in turn, Pedroza blasted Mill and continued the fight at the Liberal OC. Best part of this? All sides were at Memphis at the Santora last Thursday for Liberal Drinking, with Mill clutching a stogie, Pedroza working the crowd, and the Liberal OC guys bidding adios to own of their own.

It was like the scene in The Godfather when the Five Families meet and decide how to carve up New York--except remember this is Orange County, Juicers and Libs, and ustedes are far away from being Corleones. All of us fighting the good fight are still mere Johnny Fontaines, for that matter. So stop the bickering, get your wartime consiglieres, and go after the Turk!

(Sorry for all the Godfather references, but I've seen it three times over this long weekend...)

Comments (2)

Chris Prevatt says:
December 16, 2007 14:38

A bit of sibling rivalry never hurt anyone. At the end of the day, I hope our disagreements never keep us from being able to come together as mutual friends on a weekly basis at Drinking Liberally.

In the battle of the blogs, if there is even such a thing, content and the variety of that content is what keeps people interested and coming back to read what's up. The blog teams at all the OC blogs have their unique ways of approaching content and that does keep things interesting.

G. Jones says:
December 16, 2007 14:48

LOL! LOC didn't exactly steal me from OJ. I left OJ and blogging for a while, and when I re-surfaced it was on LOC.

Excellent point about the Turk, but wouldn't you rather we went against the Guatemalan?

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