In case you weren’t aware, there are two more blogs out whose primary mission is/will be to keep an eye on the L.A. Times. I’m not worried that either one is going to put me out of my job as your favorite L.A. Times critic, but these blogs are still worth checking out.

The first is titled Take Back the Times. It’s written by Ken Reich, who was a reporter for the paper for years. He had a pretty good observation in his post criticizing the Times for not putting a story about Hamid Karzai’s inauguration on Page One. But Reich loses credibility with this comment: “For the most part, the news coverage remains fairly straight.”

The second blog is slated to start Monday, and is titled View From the 3rd Floor. The main page has a preview of upcoming posts, and it sounds like a lot of them may be petty complaints about creature comforts at the building and such. I’d much rather read an insider view about how the truth gets squashed by editors with an agenda. But I’ll withhold judgment until I see the actual posts.

(Both blogs were brought to my attention by LAObserved.)