I wasn't going to do a 9/11 post because I kind of agree with Frank J. and I can't do better than Allahpundit. But I was tipped off to this idiocy by a liberal academic who couldn't believe how stupidly callous it is. The New York Times obviously had the anniversary front and center, as did the WaPo and the WSJ. The LA Times not so much. I'm grabbing these front pages from the Newseum and you can click through for full-sized images:

Now maybe - maybe - you could get away with arguing that after almost a decade 9/11 is mostly a Northeast and DC tragedy. It would be an insipid and cynical argument but from a certain fashionable 9/10 perspective it kind of makes sense. There's certainly a liberal strain that wallows in a sort of faux cosmopolitan provincialism: how else are you going to argue that the 1,000 year ebb and flow of Islam into the West is Bush's fault? So perhaps there's a regionalism excuse here.

Except here are the front pages of the Daily News and the Spanish language La Opinion, both out of LA and both with prominent front page stories on 9/11:

Isn't the LAT supposed to be more nationally focused than these two outlets? That's the excuse they always give for not covering local events, presumably because "we're bitter that we're not in New York so we'll pretend we are" just doesn't sound as sophisticated. What's their excuse on this one? "It's time to move on?" (h/t: GTG)

References:
* Thoughts on 9/11 [IMAO]
* Quotes of the day: Remembering 9/11/01 [Hot Air]

Previously:
* Staying Neutral the Los Angeles Times Way
* Los Angeles Times Moral Equivalence at Work
* Los Angeles Times Dishonest about Pentagon-Funded Report, Recommends Israel Disarm