Rosendahl Goes from Boob Tube to YouTube

Today's story is 11th District City Councilman Bill Rosendahl's YouTube channel.

This new-fangled Web thing is perfect for me, as I sit in the home newsroom (in my jammies, of course) and one day there's an  and then a   for my reporting pleasure.

Since I'm apparently one of many "journalists [pushed] more deeply into the tragically expanding low-wage sector of our increasingly brutal economy," according to the one media critic, I must note that reporting from home in my PJs has the added advantage of saving on dry cleaning, gas and parking.

I did get free VIP parking when I went to , so maybe some of the big shots downtown  are sympathetic to our plight.

A recent nail-biter, on the city's webcast channel, featured a joint hearing of  Bill Rosendahl's Transportation Committee and the Planning and Land Use Management Committee. On the agenda: the . [Twitter featured live comments: see photo.]

Equestrians, hikers, bikers, mountain bikers, commuters (and nacho lovers) all had their say, but that's another story.

Although he registered the channel on Aug. 5, 2010, Rosendahl has only now begun programming the channel with videos—four uploads in the last ten days. (Recall that he recently .) The most recent three—discussing the AEG stadium proposal, the Wilshire BRT and the bike plan—were shot at the same video session on Feb. 2, and showed him in a dotted red tie.

Since Justin Bieber's videos on YouTube have amassed over 700 million views, Rosendahl has some catching up to do.