In the near future, this meteor strike may be a wire story for the Chronicle -- if the paper still existsHow many cuts can one newspaper take until there is no longer a newspaper?
Like all dailies around the country, the San Francisco Chronicle seems to be running just that experiment -- with the latest development being the news that the paper's owner, Hearst Corp., is threatening to shut the whole bugger down if they don't implement "significant" staff cuts soon or find a buyer.
New Chronicle Publisher Frank Vega has been cast as a villain, but he may be just what the Hearst empireneeds to defeat the dark forces of the new economy
In other news: Soylent Green is peopleBy Fake Ward Bushee
Editor, Fake San Francisco Chronicle
When I first came to San Francisco after spending many years as editor of the Arizona Republic, the first thing that struck me - literally -- was Frank Vega's 7-iron (he insisted it was a tradition at the paper to hit new hires over the head with a golf club). The second thing was the peculiar moisture in the air here. I had never experienced anything like it in the desert. It felt cool to the skin an