Covering Pasadena From Where?

This is a joke, right?



When is local journalism not really local? When it's about Pasadena and written by someone in India.



James Macpherson, editor and publisher of the Pasadena Now website, hired two reporters last weekend to cover the Pasadena City Council. One lives in Mumbai and will be paid $12,000 a year. The other will work in Bangalore for $7,200.



The council broadcasts its meetings on the Web. From nearly 9,000 miles away, the outsourced journalists plan to watch, then write their stories while their boss sleeps — India is 12.5 hours ahead of Pacific Standard Time.



"A lot of the routine stuff we do can be done by really talented people in another time zone at much…