Could this guy have fit all the panelists and audience in his truck?In some cases, you really can tell how a story is going to end by the way the stage is set, and this was one of them.
Picture this: The Society of Professional Journalists hosts a community discussion about the potential death of the San Francisco Chronicle, with panelists including Guardian publisher Bruce Brugmann and (allegedly) City Supervisors President David Chiu ... and they can't even fill a small city library auditor
'Meeting time, guys.' The strangely nostalgic odor of stale beer wafts through the streets of Potrero Hill as a handful of familiar figures converge on a designated corner. It's the Progressive Apologists, a group of lefty media movers and shakers who have been summoned to a top secret meeting by Bay Guardian publisher Bruce Brugmann.
They are assembled at their haunt of choice -- the taco truck down the road from the Anchor Steam brewery. There's Brugmann and his executive editor Tim