June 22, 2007
New Coke: The Chris Daly Fallout
We're already getting tired of this story. Can we please get back to the Ed Jew investigations? The only coverage we're enjoying is Bad Reporter's! (We're enjoying Bad Reporter's coverage very, very much, though. "No oxygen: He could die.") Here's the latest in Daly Fight 2007:
--Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier is going to reintroduce a code of conduct for behavior before the Board of Supes. You may remember she introduced a motion to censure Daly for saying "f*** off" at a board meeting back in 2004, but it failed. The Chron's called for censure too.
--Aaron Peskin says he's already told Daly the whole thing was uncool and wants to leave it there. Yes, please. We can't take much more of this!
--Will this latest scandal take away district elections? Probably not.
--People around town seem less interested in the Newsom coke thing than they were in the Newsom sex/drinking thing, and kind of annoyed with Daly for bringing it up in the first place. Daly says (we imagine somewhat poignantly), "My [poll] numbers are already low. Now they'll hit rock bottom." Aw, we still love you, Chris! (though we understand he's not so happy with us right now.) Who else are we going to write about on the 'Fist? (Besides Ed Jew, of course.)
--The Chron also looks at other nasty political fights around the area, like in Oakland and Antioch. They blame the Internet.
--BeyondChron, by contrast, blames the Chron. (Thank you for the nice compliment about our Ed Jew coverage, Randy Shaw! Though we think the Chron's Ed Jew coverage has been awesome.)
--And while everyone else is talking about coke, people affected by Newsom's budget are still trying to get your attention. Affordable housing or the Friends of the Urban Forest? Is there no way to have both?
Picture by Jerry Jarvis.
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Cocaine is a helluva drug.
Blaming the chronicle for Chris Dalys behavior, is taking a page right out of the white houses play book who blame the liberal media for how bad the war in iraq is going. I like Randy Shaw, but that is silly.
Chris Daly is in self distruct mode, and for progressives to continue to stand by him, is destructive for the progressive cause...
Good news, Supv Daly, help is on the way!
I just spoke with Ed Jew and he'd like to drop off a little token of his appreciation for you taking the media attention off of him for the last couple of days. Expect a plain brown envelope soon with the words "Friends of the Playground" crossed out on it.
Treat yourself. Get a nice bottle of wine from Plumpjack Wines for the little lady.
BeyondChron is funded with taxpayer dollars. The Chronicle isn't. You the taxpayer are paying Randy Shaw to make these attacks on the Chronicle, and whatever else he and Tenderloin Housing Clinic want to comment on. Do people know this?
Just what kind of supervisor is Michela Alioto-Pier (Using the Alioto name just for power/fame kicks)? The Pierster is the kind that wants to immediately censor Chris Daly for a stupid remark, and yet she adores The Jewster who is polite, but also happens to be a liar, a cheat, an extortionist and a fraud! Nice Michela!
BOARD OF SUPERVISOR'S CODE OF CONDUCT:
Do not bring guns or mace to work.
Do not use blow or meth during meetings.
Always wear shoes and shirts in the office.
When accepting bribes, take unmarked small bills ONLY.
When living outside of SF, do not hire undocumented workers to take showers in your SF "residence" so your water meter still registers.
When telling someone to fuck themselves, be polite and smile.
I can't wait for the chronicle to go out of business.
CaboBird its “censure” not “censor”
Pronunciation: 'sen(t)-sh&r
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin censura, from censEre
1 : a judgment involving condemnation
2 archaic : OPINION, JUDGMENT
3 : the act of blaming or condemning sternly
4 : an official reprimand
Put down the bong.
Can anybody post who is on the board of directors of the Chronicle. I'd like to write them a letter to complain about their coverage of san francisco.
I have tried and tried to find out who is on the board of directors of the chronicle and strangely enough I can't find that information anywhere....
Dearest Dan,
Try Patty Hearst
The SF Chron is owned by the Hearst Corp
Congratulations Webster! ( I don't need to add 'ster' to your pretty name): You won the national spelling bee!
Just because a company has owners does not mean it does not have to have a board of directors.
Just because a company only has one owner still does not mean it does not have to have a board of directors.
So. Who is on the board of directors of the Chronicle?????
I think that once a corporation is acquired, it no longer keeps its own board of directors. The Chron used to be owned by Chronicle Publishing which did have its own CxOs Prez and BOD, but not anymore...
From 1995 so no longer applies:
"Chronicle Publishing remains a closely held family corporation, owned by the descendants of M.H. de Young, who founded the newspaper with his brother in 1865.
Its board today includes five family members and five outside directors. Sias is chairman."
Dan I believe the Chron is just a division of the Hearst Corporation so there is no Board of Directors for just the Chron.
The Hearst Corporation is a privately held entity and as such they are not required to maintain an independent Board of Directors (as a corporation they are required to maintain a Board of Directors).
Victor F. Ganzi is President and Chief Executive Officer, George R. Hearst, Jr. is Chairman of the Board and Frank A. Bennack, Jr. is Vice Chairman of the Board. You can find out who the other members are by going to the Edgar database and scrubbing through their annual filing.
The beauty of being a private company is that the mandates of transparency that are required of public companies do not apply, hence the recent surge in companies going private. It basically enables them to take the Chris Daly attitude to tell you to go “F**k yourself”.
I'm tired of the Daly story too .... hope he learned something from it and can better represent my district going forward as a result.
In the meanwhile ... Happy Gay Pride!
I love you, Chris Daly. When a city has a womanizing, coke-snorting drunk for Mayor, someone has to stand up and point out that the Mayor is a womanizing, coke-snorting drunk.
Why doesn't Aliot-Pier introduce a code of conduct for the Mayor instead? You know, small things such as: don't blow off question time; don't fuck your secretary; etc.
Well I went to the sec edgar and all I see for Hearst Corp is a lot of form 4s......
The Chron also as the 2 cent section with 40 people expressing opinions on Chris funny and insulting. A must read!
Chris your on fire but don't call SFFD or SFPD they"ll not aswer your call, they hate you.
Oh i spoke with a DPW worker cleaning Turk street this am "blue gloves on needle in hand" she said i can count on the police for help not my supervisor Daly.
Unfortunately Dan that is all they are required to file. On occasion private companies will file more disclosure if they are planning on becoming public at some point in the future. Given the state of the newspaper industry I guess I shouldn’t be surprised Hearst has no intention of doing that.
The Board members are all likely representatives of the various share holders so I wouldn’t be surprised if Patty Hearst and some of her siblings/cousins are on the Board.
My guess is any complaint you have about the Chron’s local coverage of San Francisco politics will likely fall on deaf ears. For all our pontificating about San Francisco being such an important city, it only represents 11.2% of the entire Bay Area. Then you have to factor in the fact that the Chron is also trying to capture readers in parts of the Central Valley and further northern regions of the state; the eyeballs in SF become increasingly diluted. The objective of the Chron is to appeal to as many readers as possible so if that means diverting resources away from San Francisco politics to focus on other more populist topics then to management it is a no brainer.
I bought a SF Chronicle at the Reno airport the other day.
Chris lied about running for Mayor. He will say anything to get onto the front page, I have never seen a more pathetic craver of attention then him. Go home and smoke your meth pipe Chris..
BTW how does BeyondChron fund its operations? They don’t seem to sell ad space so I would have to think that their funding is from an organization or endowment of some kind. Does anyone know?
Now i'M LAUGHING MY ASS OFF because apparentlly Hearst has lost hundreds of millions of dollars since 2000 on the Chronicle.
How typical.
What makes these money loser ding-a-lings think they can manipulate san francisco elections indefinitely?
That really takes the cake.
Two massive money losers, the gap and the chronicle, think they can run the city and county of san francisco.....
Wow they are in for a shock.
I do part time work for the Chron, they are owned by Hearst Corp sadly they are losing about 1 million a week.
SF Gate is doing great but it's not a money maker accounting for about 5% on gross if i recall.
Print news is slowing going to sleep, the net rules.
I think they'll make it out-sourcing press operation in the near future and the Drivers Union contract ending in 2010 she'll get smaller but she'll still be here i hope
Webster, I'll tell you exactly how BeyondChron funds it's operations. You can download their required tax form right here > http://www.bluoz.com/blog/index.php?/archives/145-exposing-Beyond-Chrons-true-agenda-in-Chronicle-bashing.html
BeyondChron really should have a comment section.
I still think there could possibly be an undisclosed local bod for the chron....
According to court documents the Chronicle is also a "non-profit".....
Dan, have you taken the trouble to actually pick up the phone and call the chron to ask them? or is bitching and moaning on this board the sum total of your investigatvie skills??? Just curious
I guess bitching and moaning is the sum total...
...this is hilarious....
Class Action Lawsuit
A class action lawsuit was filed against the Hearst Corporation for allegedly employing a scam to trick subscribers into paying money they do not owe.[2][3] The suit claims that mailers have been sent from the company, stating that a resident has a "total amount due" for a magazine that the resident does not receive.
-wikipedia hearst
I Can't believe it!!!
Name one Billion dollar corp not facing lawsuits?? Hello Mirosoft and Wal-Mart please it's business how many lawsuits does the city of SF have pending??? I know of two with a total possible pay of 40 million if won
The Gap and the Chron heh heh heh....
I guess we can expect all kinds of crazy things from these two as they slowly drift into BK.....
bbbwwwaaaaa haaaa haaaaaaaa!!!!!!
SF Chronicle really should charge for its web site ... lots of folks read the web site and never buy the paper. Working folks don't have time to pay attention to all the stuff that happens .. we need a local paper.
A word to the wise
Uh, Dan posting multiple times does not get you voted as best comment of the week by SFist.
and to everyone else who posts more than twice about the same frigging thing reiterating the same frigging thing...you owe me three seconds of your life because I wasted time reading the same frigging thing about this same frigging thing.
Low-balling the city suits friend muni has more lawsuits pending than 40 million im sure.
The Chron love M & R they dig and dig ask Cavin he had his feet in the fire.
Anyone is fair game too those two LOL
Oh and that Cop that M&R outed for abusive force the Chron put Fong under fire and she pulled him off the street
It seems that the corporate media only have the attention span for one story at a time. I guess they've never heard of multi-tasking.
I'm glad Chris said what he did. Chris does not act like or behave like the typical clone mannequin "celebrity" politician of today. He acts like an empassioned constituent. GOOD! Because I'm sick of these clone mannequin politicians. Most politicians these days are scum as far as I'm concerned. We need more Chris Daly's. And if the clone mannequins have a problem with Daly as well as the fragile public who bristle because their delicate little selves can't bear to hear somebody outspoken with passion, well too damn bad. Tough.
Now back to Ed Jew. He must be delighted at this distraction.
Delusion continues...
Does anybody know if Chris Daly is going to be in the Pride Parade on Sunday, I know he has in the past, and it is mostly in his district. If he is, I will be curious to see the reception that he receives. I know that the Mayor is marching. For that matter is Ed Jew going to be in it??????? Anyone know?????
God, I hope the politicians stay home. They are such a buzz kill when they're at the start of the parade. We know they support us ... they have to in order to stay in office in this City for God's sake.
I guess Mitchell but what has Daly accomplished? Ever......
BTW the Hearst Corp also owns Oprah mag, Teen mag, Cosmo mag and "Floor Covering Weekly". They also own King Features which in turn owns Popeye the Sailor.
Maybe this is a hint as to why the Chron is of such high journalist caliber...
Here's what I don't get. If you're reading this post at all, why do you give a rodent's behind if the Chron has an agenda or not in terms of their reporting and opinion pieces? If you don't like it, don't patronize it. Chances are if you're reading sfist you are getting your news and opinion from a multitude of sources. Apparently not many San Franciscans do patronize the Chron judging from the losses they suffer.
Don't the folks who "blame the media" in SF realize that they look just as silly as those elsewhere who "blame the media" for its supposed liberal agenda?
And what does this all have to do with Daly vs. Newsom? Daly said what he said, the Chron as well as pretty much every media outlet in town on any side of any issue reported it. Nuff said.
i guess we know something else about dan now, how easily lead astray he is by such dribble as beyond chron.
that stuff is such crap.
i wonder how hard it was for daly to write this:
http://www.sfgov.org/site/bdsupvrs_page.asp?id=62725
i bet ross and aaron were standing over his shoulder when he did it
do they have kids of their own yet?
;)
To [41] Treyman: I'm not an expert on San Francisco legislative history, but Daly has probably accomplished more than anyone else on the Board of Supervisors. Here's his legislative record. He's done more for tenants right than anyone else in the City. I walked some precincts for Chris last year in the Tenderloin SROs and people there love him. Now I can already hear some of you arguing that they're all worthless, drug-addicted, welfare-abusing criminals. And yes, unfortunately there's some of those in the SROs. But there's also a lot of hard-working poor people who deserve basic rights like keys and mailboxes and allowing guests in their rooms. Chris did that for them.
Last year, he did a masterful job on the budget. He was praised by everyone on the Board of Supervisors--including Elsbernd--and Gavin himself congratulated Daly. See this article by Pat Murphy.
Set aside his personality, and I think you have to admit that he gets stuff done. Progressive activists like me love him. But so does SPUR and real estate developers because he's worked to increase the density of housing in District 6 while raising the bar for affordable housing requirements.
That's what Matt Smith wrote about in between slagging the progressive movement in this column:
"He's not a NIMBY. He's the one member of the Board of Supervisors who is able to deal with physical change in the built environment," said Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of San Francisco Planning and Urban Research.
Well. yawn. enough of scratchy balls - he is cool and is doing his job for the most part, better than many district supervisors, and so what has a bratty upper middle class behaviour problem that can be trained by reframing things. No bad dogs!
I know ED Jew can't be characterized as a NIMBY - cause he doesn't have a city backyard.
First Amendment:
Freedom of speech.
Daly: Newsome uses cocaine.
Newsome: Daly is low class.
Case closed.
California Penal Code:
Edmond Jew: Thief, Liar, and Crook:
Case closed.
I don't think it is case closed at all.
Daly was obviously referring to pending litigation between police officers and Mayor Newsom during which they subpoena'd him to testify about alledged cocaine use.
The Mayor mounted a vigorous challenge according to news reports. Wonder why.
What is the problem with the Mayor discussing his alleged cocaine use UNDER OATH?
Daly made a FACTUAL statement about Mayor Nesom's completely newsworth actions to "artfully dodge" allegations of cocaine use.
Know what? If a police officer's lawyer is subpoenaing a mayor of a major american city about that mayors cocaine use it is likely that it is more than a mere fishing expedition if you catch my drift....
THE CHRONICLE CONVIENENTLY IGNORED THIS.
Their coverage was so obviously biased as usual in favor of the mayor that the only possible explaination is that, besides being trustee of the Getty Trust, his father retired federal Judge Newsom is also a trustee of the Hearst Trust......
great post jeremy. careful, you sound like a rational and intelligent person with that post. are you sure you're on the right side of this debate?
;)
the legislative record was interesting:
http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/resolutions05/r0538-05.pdf
giving 16 year olds the right to vote, trying to ensure the kids of his constituency help keep his agenda going. pretty clever.
while were at it, how about giving us property owners 1.5 votes vs everyone else since we have so much more at stake in this town when folks like daly run amok?
Why should we allow 1.5 votes to someone dumb enought to by a condo at the top of a real estate bubble?