SF News Lengthy Times Piece About SF Fire Commissioner Assault Case Tries to Counter 'Doom Loop' Narrative The New York Times is, somewhat recently, trying to counter the "doom loop" narrative about San Francisco that the SF Chronicle first promoted, and that the Times itself contributed fodder to earlier in the year.
SF News Heather Knight Files Her First New York Times Story, and It's About San Francisco's Beleaguered Reputation Heather Knight's first byline as San Francisco Bureau Chief for the New York Times is a story about how everyone in the country — including self-satisfied New Yorkers who haven't been here in years — has bought into the narrative that SF is a hellhole now.
SF News San Francisco's Chief Economist Says 'Doom Loop' Talk Overblown, Consumer Spending Nearing Pre-Pandemic Levels Continuing their mea culpa over all that "doom loop" coverage they've done for several months, the San Francisco Chronicle has a piece today where they — finally! — get SF's own Chief Economist Ted Egan to weigh in with his sober opinion on the matter.
SF News Op-Ed Suggests St. Louis, Moreso Than SF, Is In a Serious 'Doom Loop' and No One Is Talking About It It is actually dangerous and deserted in parts of St. Louis, and a Republican legislature in Missouri has tried its best to counter any progressive policy the city tries to enact, leading to unproductive political fights, as a Times opinion piece suggests.
SF News SF Chronicle Now Seems to Regret Amplifying the 'Doom Loop' Narrative It Heavily Amplified The San Francisco Chronicle is standing like a kid who cried "Fire!" amid a rush of sirens and chaos asking what all the fuss is about, as it has a front-page story today about the ramifications of the "doom loop" narrative the paper itself amplified.
Arts & Entertainment A Few Words About Jonathan Franzen, iPhone Gazing, The Death Of Books, And Hating On Technology The arguably great, inarguably astute Jonathan Franzen wrote an essay this past week that has taken even the literarily inclined a few days to get around to, as most good essays should. It's
