Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Against Flakery

From the CJR:

The number-two story on the front page of SFGate.com last night, and evidently given prominent play in today’s print version of the San Francisco Chronicle, is not a news story at all, but an unbylined “report.” It is, in fact, just a rewritten press release from Hearst management.

Not one word makes it into the paper from Chronicle unions, whose contracts Hearst CEO Frank Bennack wants to “quickly” rewrite with “significant” concessions under threat of closing the newspaper.