Is hell frozen over? If we here at SFist are wondering if one of San Francisco's major dailies is going to end up sued for calling suspects "goons" and "thugs" -- and describing reported crimes as fact, not allegation -- then it must be opposite day. Recently, Mike Aldax at SF Examiner has been delivering aggressive (albeit well-written and amusing) crime reports. Behold: more ›

While it made headlines last year, this year's passing of San Francisco's 100th murder, happened in early November, made little buzz in the mainstream media. As of last night's brazen North Beach murder -- where Richard Barrett, 29, was shot in the back and killed while trying to enter Fuse -- has the city of San Francisco at 103. So, since we're well ahead of the curve from 2007, why hasn't the mainstream media make mention of this? more ›

It's official down on The Farm. In a story that we broke more than two months ago, ESPN.com and others are reporting that Stanford has fired head football coach Walt Harris. Hate to say it Main Stream Media, but we told you so.

Sure, we mock the Chronicle all the time -- but we mock because we love! So let us extend a hearty back-slap of congratulations to our main bastion of the Mainstream Media out here in San Francisco for winning a Pulitzer for feature photojournalism! Deanna Fitzmaurice's photographs illustrating a series about an Iraqi boy flown to the Children's Hospital in Oakland for life-saving surgery after he was injured in an explosion, called "Operation Lionheart," beat out the Minneapolis Star-Tribune's photo essay on a woman soldier recovering from head trauma and the LA Times' famous picture of the Marine smoking. We're so proud! The Chron was totally robbed for a Pulitzer on their BALCO coverage, though. They'll just have to settle for getting a Congressional inquiry started and triggering a nationwide debate is all. more ›