Duh: Journalist/Former Mayor Willie Brown Disliked at Da Chron
And you thought Sean Penn was a horrible idea?
Former corrupt San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, as many of you who still read the City's most popular Hearst publication already know, has his very own column in the Chronicle.
And it's awful.
During yet another lapse in judgment, Chron "editor" Ward Bushee made the retarded decision to put Brown on the Chon's masthead. In the end, it's an ethically-unsound (and inane) attempt to replace the gaping hole left by Herb Caen's departure. According to a much better scribe/human being, Matt Smith - one of state's most ingenious, kind, and sometimes taken for granted columnists - even some of the remaining newsroom journos at the Chron loathe Brown's presence.
For many on the staff, "reading [Brown's shit-stained golden nuggets of whimsy and wisdom] became a game of Where's Waldo, in which players sought to find the greatest number of violations of the paper's ethical code," reports Smith.
Not to mention the violation of readers' delicate aesthetic sensibilities. Did you read his horrifying take on his protege's recent nuptials this week? Well, one SFGate writer did, the equally brilliant Beth Spotswood. Today's Culture Blog proved to be one of Spot's best ever. In it she revises Brown's stale rundown of the Montana Ranch wedding. Here are two choice moments in an overall perfect article:
They say the Google guys, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are here too, but I haven't seen them.They're busy playing RISK and drinking Capri Suns.
The theme of the wedding is "Out of Africa," Montana style.
Nelson Mandela just threw up on a zebra.
Genius.
Anyway, if Bushee has any sudden shock of clarity, he'll ditch Brown. And fast. Unless Brown plans on writing something interesting such as how to win friends and admirers as a "pay-for-play" mayor. How to wear a hat fetchingly. Or, perhaps, what vile things Sonya Molodetskaya has to do sexually to stay in his stable. Until then, no one's reading.
Well, expect for Beth and Matt. Thank God.