Afternoon news snack

• CityBeat's cover story by Celia Farber delves into the controversy over the possible AIDS death of three-year-old Eliza Jane Scovill, her mother Christine Maggiore's identity as a skeptic of AIDS science and coverage of the case by the Los Angeles Times and ABC: "EJ Scovill’s death has become, in the past year, the very crucible of the HIV Causation War." Farber's recent piece on AIDS broke records for Harper's, apparently.
• The Annenberg Foundation's pledge of $10 million to solve the South Central farm standoff is part of a "high-stakes political chess match," the LA Weekly's Daniel Hernandez says in an online-only update. (Of this.)
• The first of the new red-light cameras went up today at Laurel Canyon and Victory in North Hollywood.
• LAist revealed the blog's new editor: Tony Pierce of the venerable Busblog. He says there, enigmatically: "quite possibly the most perfect job i could be asked to do. cover la. completely. ridiculously. relentlessly. humorously. in a way no one could have ever conceived....while putting los angeles back on the map."
• Channel 2's website goes behind the scenes with the taxpayer-supported flack-bloggers of the LAFD and LAPD. (Via LAist)
• Ex-L.A. Times reporter Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez is involved in another public scrap, this time in Miami.
• The City Council yesterday signed off on a $1.5 million settlement with the family of Devin Brown, the 13-year-old car theft suspect who was shot and killed by the LAPD last year.