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GONE WITH THE WIND - 2006
"There was a land of Publishers and Editors called the Newspaper Business... Here in this pretty world Journalism took its last bow... Here was the last ever to be seen of Reporters and their Enablers, of Anonymous Sources and of Stringers... Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. A Civilization Gone With the Wind..."

With apologies to Margaret Mitchell...

"It's very scary for those of us who can't do anything else," said reporter Stacy Finz. "I just need it to sustain me for 20 more years."

The most revealing point came at the end...the Stacy dinosaur who cannot adjust to the changing times. I guess liars can't be choosy.

The department got so unwieldy that it had to move into its own building next door

Bureaucratic empire building within.

How did Caen create his tableaux of San Francisco figures such as Willie Brown and Wilkes Bashford, almost as a fiction writer would?

Caen probably wrote a lot of fictional stories for the paper.

When I was at the Chronicle, it was legendary for pushing people out of their comfort zones.

Most fishwrap seems to try to exclusively push around only conservatives.

Rosenthal in particular was pleased with the three-part "Diary of a Sex Slave," which ran last month. It was a classic Chronicle "campaign" that made waves. Writer Meredith May traveled to South Korea, Los Angeles, and the Mexican border with a photographer. She then recorded a Podcast with Gavin Newsom about what he'd like to see done about sex trafficking.

Pandering to SF's's many perverts.

They are gambling that somehow they can morph the Chronicle from a publishing company into an information company. . . . It's all of a piece with Hearst's gambit to shift from publishing to information. . . . Both men soon realized that the biggest and most cost-effective opportunity for growth was not suburbs, but cyberspace. . . . "I think we think of ourselves not just as a newspaper anymore, but as a multimedia provider, not just in print but on the Web," Zacchino said.

Heady visions of Media Colonialism dance through their heads.

We live in the SF Bay Area and take the Chronicle primarily for the sports and crossword puzzles. There really is not much to read in the paper. The business section is anti business and unreadable. Their editorial pages are reliably ultra liberal. The news is slanted to promote the Democratic agenda. It is hard to get straight news out of the paper without a liberal prospective. We take another local paper but it is liberal as well. It is lonely being a conservative in this area.