It's easy to take shots at the L.A. Times. But those easy shots trivialize some of the strong work being done over there -- such as the powerful stuff by reporter Jill Leovy.
Her latest piece focuses on Rodney and Vivian Murray, a middle-class couple who opted to stay in South Los Angeles even as the neighborhood changed for the worse -- and most of their contemporaries fled. But the Murrays felt a duty to stay in the home that they've lived in for 20 years.
A few weeks ago, their 20-year-old son Sean, a quiet young man free of any gang association, was killed a few blocks from home. Victim of random violence.
The Murrays are finally moving. Listen, you may think this kind of story is cliche by now. I don't. I don't think it's told enough.
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