Perfidious Press
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Two traits link the beautiful city of San Francisco and the power center that is Washington D.C. Those traits are rampant psychosis and yellow journalism.
Occasionally you can find both in one convenient package.
Modern Sodom’s scandal sheet is the San Francisco Chronicle (or the Chronic as we local observers of the dope smoking counter culture call the paper). This William Randolph Hearst bastard child of is no stranger to the stranger side of journalism despite their occasional lucid interludes when they print and pay for my op/eds. Catering to a left of center populace, the Chronic is seldom ashamed to pimp politicians of the progress persuasion. Naturally they carried affections for Barack Obama that made Alex Forrest appear aloof by comparison.
I am surprised Ward Bushee didn’t wear knee pads during Obama interviews.
Surprising it isn’t then when the Golden Gate’s local fish wrapper blazes front page stories that seem less factually devoted than devotional. Today from their Washington Bureau came an opening paragraph that had an equal mix of DNC talking points and Obama campaign messaging, as well as a complete abdication of journalist integrity.
The Obama stimulus, as history will know it, is change you can believe in. That $900 billion and counting reflects the outcome of the November election …
In less than two sentences the Chronic’s D.C. yellow dog managed to regurgitate as fresh food two distinct Democrat sound bites while simultaneously divining the future aggregate conclusion of historians. The writer (a malleable noun in this instance) commands the reader to believe yet not to think or be informed. The political immodesty of the Chronicle’s alleged journalist contorts the very definition of news and the more important concepts of balance, insight and open-mindedness.
But it says a lot about the decline of the American newspaper.
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