Newsflash: a major metropolitan newspaper known to be struggling to stay afloat has allocated resources to something not totally shameless! The Los Angeles Times has launched a weekly column on independent film, called Indie Focus, to be written by freelancer Mark Olsen. Olsen’s first Indie Focus story, on the perhaps unlikely double feature of Frownland and The Pleasure of Being Robbed beginning on Thursday at the Silent Movie theater, is online now; it’ll appear in the print edition of Sunday’s Calendar section, which is kind of a big deal. A newspaper attempting to combat their industry’s total desperation with a gesture that says indie film reporting (or really, any kind of arts coverage that demands an audience beyond 12 year old boys) is not only important, but worthy of the highest-profile platform that they have to offer? More like this, please.