God help us. The local news has discovered Google maps. Now every story, no matter how mundane, begins out in space and we ZOOM in to... East Bakersfield!
It's a bad habit they've picked up from the network nightly news, where it at least makes a little bit of sense as you hopscotch from trouble spots all over the globe. Not sure it makes much sense for a stabbing at the Deja Vu strip club.
