The Examiner, as we mentioned, was recently sold to a news consortium led by Black Press Group, and taking over as publisher is San Francisco resident Todd Vogt. Today the paper announced that it will be doing away with its right-wing editorial pages, and will be taking on a more strongly local focus.

Then Vogt takes a second to shit-talk the Chronicle, just because he can. "San Francisco is a vibrant and thought-leading city,” says Vogt. “While the other newspaper in The City [sic] says it is local, it long ago stopped reporting on issues that truly matter to this dynamic community. Its lackluster approach to local news only highlights the bold approach The SF Examiner takes in selecting and presenting stories that speak to San Franciscans."

Meanwhile, Examiner scribe Mike Aldax, he of our favorite crime reporting with his liberal use of words like "goon" and "thug," hails the changes to the editorial section, which goes down to two pages in today's paper, and takes on a more local focus. "There were 4 pages of opinions, mostly anti everything liberal, and much of it angered our readership," Aldax writes on Facebook. "What was most concerning was how boring they were to read. I don't care what side of the fence you fall on.... Pretty much none of it was written by folks in our newsroom, certainly not by our reporters, mostly folks from Washington D.C. or Denver. Hopefully San Franciscans will appreciate this new step and recognize that our staffers only want to report compelling local news."

[Examiner]