Random Lengths News Carves a Community Niche on Its Own Terms
april 6, 2009 10:01 am
"To the uninitiated, Random Lengths News may appear to be a leftist journalistic exercise carried on by a deluded few, but it is a vital news
source for an increasingly frustrated constituency," Julia Murphy writes in a profile of the San Pedro, Calif., alt-weekly that appeared in a recent edition of Swindle magazine (not available online). "There is an essential nexus between Main Street business,
progressive politics and the well-being of the communities we
serve," publisher James Allen says. "The locals trust [our paper]
even if they don't agree with it."