Subject: San Francisco Chronicle

• Breaking News: Ward H. Bushee Replaces Embattled San Francisco Chronicle EIC Phil Bronstein

  January 25, 2008

• Eggers NYT OpEd: Debate Over Torch Heats Up

  March 25, 2008

• San Francisco Chronicle To Cut 125 Positions

  August 1, 2008

• SF Gov InAction: Overtime Report Catches City Departments Working! Democracy will Save the Eastern Neighborhoods!

  November 3, 2008

• Why the 'Black Friday Story' Is the Enemy of Real News

  By Peter JamisonThe professional world offers few examples of desiccated ritual more perfect than those to be found on newsstands the Saturday after Thanksgiving, when daily papers across the country give over their front pages to the annual Black Friday story. Every year, without fail, unlucky reporters are stuck with the Sisyphean task of taking this most mundane of consumer binges -- so named because retailers supposedly move out of the red with large volumes of sales -- and turning it into s

  December 2, 2008

• Chronicle Armageddon?

  In the second paragraph of the final post of SFGate.com's "World Views" blog, Edward Gomez teases what reads like an impending massacre at the Chronicle. To wit: "...Numerous other, familiar features of this website will also be disappearing, and a notable number of employees from the S.F.Gate/San Francisco Chronicle editorial team will be leaving the print/electronic newspaper as its editorial-production staff is dramatically downsized..." New Year's Day, careful readers will recall, was whe

  December 30, 2008

• Central Coast Weekly Blasts Chron's Environmental Coverage

  While the San Francisco Chronicle is busy fêting itself with daily retrospectives, journalists beyond the walls of 901 Mission are sounding a less complimentary note. In an editorial published last week, the weekly Carmel Pine Cone takes the Chron to task for its reporting on environmental questions looming over the Central Coast's Moss Landing power plant (pictured), stating that Chron environmental writer Jane Kay "is trying her best to get into the Hall of Fame for Bad Reporting." At issue

  January 19, 2009

• Chron Redesign: It's a Brave New Font-tier

  New. Improved?The San Francisco Chronicle debuted its much-touted redesign on Sunday, with additional changes appearing in today's paper. Modifications include a new, softer headline font and stories divided by three horizontal lines instead of one. In a time when most publications are cutting back, the Chron is giving you more -- more lines. The new layout smacks of magazine design, and the additions to the Sunday paper had a distinctly "newsish" feel. Short, bite-sized lists of things to buy a

  February 2, 2009

• Will DMC-12 Time Travel Fuel Chronicle's 'New Era' Initiative?

  According to graphic data retrieved by SF Weekly's computer-assisted reporting team, a "New Era" initiative announced in the Feb. 1 San Francisco Chronicle may include time travel with the help of a specially modified Northern-Irish-made sports car fitted with a flux capacitor and other devices. Under the headline "S.F. Chronicle turns the page into a new era," a story bylined "Ward Bushee" states: "In June, when we flip the switch on the most modern newspaper presses in the United States, reade

  February 3, 2009

• The Shaming of Monifa the Gorilla

  This gorilla's mother not only raised him, but continues to dress him.As you may have read in the morning's San Francisco Chronicle, the baby gorilla whose mother gave it a big "fuck you" is doing quite well, and needs a name. It can't be just any name though. It has to be of African origin, which means we only have about 2,000 languages to choose from. To narrow it down further, we could make it a point of following the example set by city Animal Care and Control -- which recented&n

  February 13, 2009

• Wunderhair?

  June 21, 1995

• Chatterbox

  July 5, 1995

• Chatterbox

  July 26, 1995

• Great Moments in the Bay Area Feel Good/Feel Better History

  August 23, 1995

• Chatterbox

  September 6, 1995

• Chatterbox

  September 20, 1995

• Chronicle Newsroom to be Decimated

  Stop the presses! Actually, don't do that -- even we here in alt-weekly land don't want to see the demise of the city's last paid-circulation daily paper, the San Francisco Chronicle. But things are looking grim over at Fifth & Mission. Today, the union that represents Chron reporters met with members and shared the outlines of a deal offered by management that would result in major cuts to the newsroom. Actually, it's hard to describe management's offer as a "deal." But when a paper i

  March 5, 2009

• More Details Due Today on Chronicle's Potential Union Deal

  Sorry Jinx. We're laying you off.The only factor delaying the announcement of a time and place for a possible Thursday union vote on whether to accept the San Francisco Chronicle's latest offer is the securing of "a large enough facility" -- which, sadly, would have been a lot harder to do a decade ago when the paper's news staff was twice as large. It figures to be far easier following this coming vote.  Further details are promised today on the tentative deal struck last night between Hea

  March 10, 2009

• Chron Death Watch: Panel of Journalists Talking to Audience of Journalists and Covered by Journalists Express Concerns

  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

  March 18, 2009

• The Labor Lobby

  S.F. unions do a lot of lobbying. They just don't report it.

  March 11, 2009

• Chron's anniversary surprises

  January 28, 2009

• Buy Line

  In these desperate times, the Chronicle considers desperate measures.

  November 26, 2008

• Prop. 8 campaign uses Chron content to scare voters

  November 5, 2008

• Print is dying, but Chron gets glossy new press

  April 23, 2008

• Stop Whining

  February 13, 2008

• This Movie Sucks

  January 11, 2006

• Cold Serial

  The infamous Zodiac killer inspires another dead-end film

  March 15, 2006

• The Daily Lickspittle

  Journalism has a lot of problems, but too many of them are manifestations of a sycophantic attitude toward the big-e Establishment

  June 1, 2005

• Veg-Out Vegetarian Guide to San Francisco Bay Area

  Love the capsule reviews; wish it didn't skip African joints and pad its pages

  September 29, 2004

• alt.war

  Traditional media mislead the public about the war in Iraq as a media revolution makes traditional media increasingly irrelevant

  April 2, 2003

• Papered Over

  The Chronicle turns its back on the people of Bayview-Hunters Point

  August 21, 2002

• Read It and Weep

  In answer to the Chronicle, we submit our own list of things that make us cry

  June 26, 2002

• A Silver Lining

  April 11, 2001

• Save the Wrapping Paper

  Glow; Bacar; Bliss Bar

  December 27, 2000

• Fork-Beard, Vlad, and the Fat King of France

  The last millennial retrospective you need to read

  January 5, 2000

• Dog Bites

  November 18, 1998

• REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

  September 2, 1998

• Dog Bites

  March 25, 1998

• Beat the Press

  February 4, 1998

• Dog Bites

  December 10, 1997

• Welcome to San Francisco, Capital of Anti-Muslim Hate Speech

  And you thought JROTC was badIs San Francisco, political-correctness capital of the known world, secretly a bastion of anti-Muslim hate speech? That's the impression you'd get these days from reading the publicity broadsides from the Washington, D.C.-based American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, which has been highlighting hate, hate and more hate emanating from the Bay Area towards Muslims and those of Arab descent.The group's offensive began earlier this month, with a short opinion piece

  April 30, 2009

• Hammer To Fall: Layoffs Resume at Chronicle

  In a sad spin on the righteous adage, layoffs delayed are not layoffs denied. Last month, a number of San Francisco Chronicle employees told us that staffers were bracing for the "final" round of layoffs, which was supposed to come on April 17. Well, it didn't -- which led staffers to tell us they felt like rats in the cage of a python who wasn't hungry (yet). He's hungry today. A pair of sources confirmed to SF Weekly that, among others, reporters John Koopman, Jonathan Curiel, and Tyche Hendri

  May 7, 2009

• Guild: Chron Layoff Count From Past Two Days Reaches 39; 151 Have Departed Since March

  The Media Workers Guild announced this afternoon that the final tally for the San Francisco Chronicle's two-day layoff binge was 39 departed Guild workers: 18 on the newsroom side and 21 in advertising, ad production, and other commercial departments. As reported yesterday, the Chron dismissed a number of its most veteran and respected writers; seven reporters and an editor were reported to have been laid off from the Metro Desk alone. The Guild announcement notes that 151 union employees have v

  May 8, 2009

• Chronicle Reports on Closure of Church -- Tiny, Open-Air Church Along the Busline

  God will be arriving in two minutes, 12 minutes, and 24 minutesPeople who live in glass houses ought not to throw stones -- though, as Demitri Martin notes, a better motto would be "No stone throwing regardless of housing situation. Don't do it. There is one exception though. If you're trapped in a glass house, and you have a stone, then throw it."So we thought a bit before posting the above San Francisco Chronicle goof -- but we decided it's worth it. It's not every day the paper reports upon t

  May 29, 2009

• Chronicle's Rapid Weight Loss: New Paper Is Inch Thinner Than Old

  Yes, today's new Chronicle is more than an inch thinner than its prior incarnation Of all the many complaints leveled against the San Francisco Chronicle, "It's too darn wrinkly" never came up with us. And still, there was the Chron proudly announcing the dawn of its "wrinkle-free era" today with papers rolling off the billion-dollar (non-union) Transcontinental presses in Fremont. We have plenty of thoughts, but here are two first and foremost: If any of the Chron's orgiastic coverage of its ow

  July 6, 2009

• Society of Professional Journalists Reassures Us of the Robustness of Our Field By Honoring Three Men: Two Dead Guys and a 90-Year-Old

  In order to re-inforce our point that this year's SPJ honorees heark from a different era, here's a Spencer Tracy referenceLast week, the Society of Professional Journalists -- whose membership is growing ever more, shall we say, selective every day now -- honored three men as "fellows," the highest award it can bestow. It's a high honor, and one earned not in years or decades but a lifetime. That being said, in a time when the robustness of the field of journalism is getting to be on par with t

  July 14, 2009

• Apparent Ponzi Scheme Advertised in Sunday Chronicle, Fraud Investigator Says

  Banking experts qualify the service being hawked in this San Francisco Chronicle ad as a potential Ponzi schemeReaders skimming the ads on page D-2 of the Sunday, July 12 San Francisco Chronicle might have been surprised to see an extraordinary investment opportunity in a quarter-page advertisement running a couple columns below Scott Adams' Dilbert cartoon. "You can now earn: 1 year -- 11.00 percent," the advertisement announces, urging readers to go to a Web site describing "investment notes"

  July 17, 2009

• Our Picks for the Four Hottest Tickets at This Weekend's SF Chefs.Food.Wine. Fest

  ​This weekend's first-ever SF Chefs.Food.Wine culinary festival is a chance to get up close and personal with local food and wine talent through tastings, classes, and even a cocktail contest. The cost might make you balk (ticketed events are $40 and up, day passes $150), but keep in mind that old adage that you get what you pay for. Still, if your bank account isn't so bountiful, you can always take the freebie volunteer route. No guarantee at this late date that you'll get an email resp

  August 4, 2009

• List: The Chronicle looks on the bright side

  November 4, 2009

• Berkeley Students Roll a Fatty

  dailylifeofmojo/FlickrAgain we have to ask: Why?​Food history was made yesterday when a group of U.C. Berkeley students and volunteers made the world's longest California roll in Sproul Plaza. Reports from the Oakland Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle detail hundreds of amateur sushi makers -- some rocking ninja gear -- rolling a new world record of 331 feet. It was composed of 200 pounds of dry rice, 180 pounds of imitation crabmeat (aka krab), and 80 pounds of both avocado and cucumber

  November 9, 2009