As the warm Californian evening falls, the latest news beams out from large flatscreen TVs across the stacked rows of apartments visible from our living room window. Few residents feel the need to close their blinds in this balmy weather, instead leaving windows and doors open, creating an almost Mediterranean atmosphere. Excited voices of TV anchors vying with shrieks of playful children, drift upwards to our terrace. Inside, my wife exclaims periodically as she watches the sharp summaries of the day’s events in ad-spliced YouTube videos.