{"id":298,"date":"2008-01-26T15:46:48","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T15:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/?p=298"},"modified":"2008-01-26T15:46:48","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T15:46:48","slug":"waybeyondchron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/26\/waybeyondchron\/","title":{"rendered":"waybeyondchron"},"content":{"rendered":"

from taxpayer funded beyondchron<\/a><\/p>\n

For all of Bruce Brugmann\u2019 s outsized personality, and the changes in the news industry that have put politically alternative weeklies at risk, the Guardian-SF Weekly case involves far more than these two parties. Rather, it has national implications for the future of local journalism.<\/p>\n

If a large chain, whether it be Wal-Mart, the Gannet Corp., or the smaller Village Voice Media, can drive competitors out of business by selling ads at below-cost, then local newpapers, radio stations and other media have no future. And this is not a good thing. <\/em><\/p>\n

No…Actually what has much larger implications for the future of local journalism are quasi propaganda wings forcibly paid for with our tax dollars such as BeyondChron, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tenderloin Housing Clinic. Nothing can compete with BeyondChron and if there’s enough of that, all newspapers might go out of business and we might as well just have state controlled media, like in the old Soviet Union. Maybe the SF Weekly and the Bay Guardian should just get out of this messy ad based business and convert to the Randy Shaw model. We could have Trent Rohr and Aaron Peskin as managing editors with a whole flotilla of muni drivers writing about how unbelievably outstanding our Muni system is, and then toss in weekly ‘corrective classes’ held in the City Hall dungeon<\/strike> basement for those that try to write and and disagree<\/p>\n

doesn’t anybody out there think it’s just a little strange for Randy Shaw to be analyzing ad revenue tactics between two commercial newspapers when he himself has never had to sell an ad in his life because his revenue and pretty much his entire life is paid for from the government teet?<\/p>\n

I can choose whether or not to read the SF Weekly or the Bay Guardian. You and I, and everybody else, do NOT have a choice when it comes to Beyondchron, because even if you don’t read it, you’re still forced to pay for it<\/p>\n

even more hypocritical and insulting is the very same newspapers Randy Shaw is criticizing can’t even interview THC’s own employees because they’ve been ordered not to and are bound by confidentiality agreements, so these newspapers can’t even ask the questions they want to ask about publicly funded institutions<\/p>\n

Running an 18 million dollar a year publicly funded institution and refusing to answer basic questions from the press about basic issues such as public safety and financing does far more harm to local journalistic integrity than advertising wars ever will<\/p>\n

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