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Let it be said at the outset that the Pasadena Now Web site is a handsome piece of work. Further, let’s agree it’s a feather in Pasadena’s cap that its city council meetings can all be accessed in streaming video. Now we come to the crux of the matter, the help-wanted ad that has journalists in a tiz: Pasadena Now’s announcement that it seeks “a newspaper journalist based in India to report on the city government and political scene of Pasadena, California, USA.”
The world is going places we don’t necessarily want to be. We can fight change or we can embrace it. If Pasadena Now proposes that coverage of Pasadena city council meetings become an international project, then let the world roll up its sleeves and take it on. We can all adopt Pasadena. We can follow its city council along with that stringer in Bangalore and e-mail our reports to editor@pasadenanow.com. Collective wisdom is not stenography. Pasadena could become the first city that, truly, the whole world’s watching.
