Posted on 12/16/2004 2:15:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
Sort of like a brother turd ....
Wow, I am shocked that they weren't already at 100% ...
Told the phone person I would probably purchase an occasional Thursday edition ....when I want some truck tyres or to see what ammo is on sale.
Schardenfreude indeed
Has anyone noticed that the San Francisco Chronicle is slowly abandoning its "Op-ed" page? They haven't had one on Saturdays for years, but over the past three or four months, with increasing frequency, they put some gimmicky nonsense in the op ed page which consists of mostly graphics and blank space, with a tiny amount of text, or none at all. I think they're doing this about once a week now.
They try to pass off these space wasters as "special features", but they are usually so fluffy it looks to me like it's a way to fill up the page while avoiding paying for the syndicated columns they usually run, most of which are from the NY times issue of three days before.
= )
As far as San Jose, it's a nice place to live, but I wouldn't want to visit here, and though we were outnumbered by around 2:1, a couple hundred thousand of us did vote for President Bush. (In Santa Clara County)
I think it was something like 65:35 Kerry:Bush in SClara county. I forget the total # of voters though Proud to be part of the 35% minority. What cracks me up is all the Kerry bumper stickers I still see on my up 280. I actually saw a "Draft Wesley Clark" sticker the other day.
I made up mind about the Merc a long time ago, but running Muslim feel-good stories during Holy Week really sealed the deal for my brother.
Santa Clara: Perhaps the most fertile farmland in the world, paved-over so that people could commute to San Francisco and Oakland. Gone are the most delicious apricots, nectarines and plums that the world's orchards could produce. And for what?
Someone ought'a file a class action suit against all newspaper companies that ever had kids do paper routes.
What are you using to post on F.R.?
So me and 846,499 other folks can earn our average $69.5k salaries and together render unto Uncle Sam that $16.5 Billion which is his, for starters.
I'll read the Merc on weekends while I'm eating breakfast - I get a vicarious thrill out of reading the Real Estate section.
>Santa Clara: Perhaps the most fertile farmland in the world, paved-over so that people could commute to San Francisco and Oakland. Gone are the most delicious apricots, nectarines and plums that the world's orchards could produce. And for what?<
Silicon Valley?
-George
Fine, but I don't think its particularly healthy to constantly remind everyone of their differences. The Merc revels in it.
Every now & then, ok. But every day?
Yeah, I got tired of the Merc's postmodern liberal gobbledygook long ago. The Merc has only a few basic editorial story lines with the following main themes:
1) Victim
2) Empowerment
3) Hero
... performed by the following main actors:
1) Women
2) Gays
3) Non-white immigrants
So on any given day these editorial variables are shuffled around in the local, national, and international news coverage. On Monday it is female hero, immigrant victim, and gay empowerment. On Tuesday it is immigrant hero, gay victim, and female empowerment. On Wednesday it is gay hero, female victim, and immigrant empowerment. And so on.
It gets old real fast.
Wow, you walked through Blizzards in San Jose?? ;)
That's ok, the papers in the Bay Area blow anyway. The only one that may even be worth the four bits would be the Contra Costa Times because every once in a blue moon, they'd write something insightful about the Raiders. Other than that, good riddance.
Some enterprising FReeper ought to buy this newspaper and turn it around!
Better to start from scratch.
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