Wednesday, October 06, 2004
ah, journalism...
it's unfortunate that we don't have much for real journalism here in SF. Granted, the D5 race is a circus, and everyone is clamoring for attention, but there's such a gap between how hardworking the 'small'/independent media (SF Observer, SF Sentinel, even the New Fillmore, heck, even joefire) seem to be compared to the Guardian, the Weekly, etc.
I just saw 4, or was it 5 pages of the Weekly taken up with a spoof on the D5 race as a trading cards game. Sheesh. Worse, the miniscule comments (ok, I didn't read everyone's, I bet they're all bad) written about each candidate seem based on impressions after asking a few people in a bar to say what they know about the folks in the race.
My little blurb mentioned that I often wear a hat. My guess is that they read that on joefire, since he's had that on his site for about a month. there's journalism for you. repeat an off hand comment made by someone else as the whole message. Ah well.
One reason I'm so interested in the local media is that it could be such a great place to get information to people, to let a whole part of our district --folks who don't or can't get to political forums, who just moved here, etc.-- to know about the important stuff that will affect the city for years to come. Instead, we get playing cards that don't make much sense. Oy.
it's unfortunate that we don't have much for real journalism here in SF. Granted, the D5 race is a circus, and everyone is clamoring for attention, but there's such a gap between how hardworking the 'small'/independent media (SF Observer, SF Sentinel, even the New Fillmore, heck, even joefire) seem to be compared to the Guardian, the Weekly, etc.
I just saw 4, or was it 5 pages of the Weekly taken up with a spoof on the D5 race as a trading cards game. Sheesh. Worse, the miniscule comments (ok, I didn't read everyone's, I bet they're all bad) written about each candidate seem based on impressions after asking a few people in a bar to say what they know about the folks in the race.
My little blurb mentioned that I often wear a hat. My guess is that they read that on joefire, since he's had that on his site for about a month. there's journalism for you. repeat an off hand comment made by someone else as the whole message. Ah well.
One reason I'm so interested in the local media is that it could be such a great place to get information to people, to let a whole part of our district --folks who don't or can't get to political forums, who just moved here, etc.-- to know about the important stuff that will affect the city for years to come. Instead, we get playing cards that don't make much sense. Oy.
