Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Old Man Shakes Fist "Native Son" columnist Carl Nolte marches outside the Chronicle Building at Fifth and Mission to protest the Hearst Corporation's proposed contract terms for guild workers. Your SFist editors, meanwhile, are still shaking our
SF News Chronicle Workers Will Protest Tomorrow With 15-Minute Smoke Break, Red Clothing To protest the Hearst Corporation's plan to shoulder San Francisco Chronicle employees with an additional health care burden, members of the Chronicle staff plan to step away from their desks at precisely 3:
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Chronicle Ducks Behind Paywall, Confounds Readers Notice anything different about SFGate.com today? Probably not, but the paper of record has moved some random amount of special content behind a for-subscribers-only paywall site at SFChronicle.com. Articles on SFGate.
SF News SF Chronicle Demands Fair Health Care Via Online Campaign We here at SFist need to rib the Chronicle or SFGate now and then. In turn, they need to send us angry emails demanding our phone number. It's a dysfunctional relationship, but it
SF News Spurned Photographer Exacts Revenge On SFGate, Creates FriscoGate.com Yesterday, in an attempt to get Internet readers to click on something as many times as possible, SFGate.com ran a second edition of "You know you're a real San Franciscan if you.
SF News Woman Who Brought Us SFGate Ousted From Yahoo Liz Lufkin, who's most recently been the vice president responsible for front-page editorial programming at Yahoo and who once upon a time co-founded SFGate, has been ousted from Yahoo in a reorg. Editor-in-chief
SF News SFGate Commenters Up In Arms Over David Chiu's $700,000 Wheelchair Ramp The most popular story on the 'Gate right now? That would be Matier and Ross's column about the wheelchair ramp to the Board President's chair, currently being constructed in the Board of Supervisors
SF News Phil Bronstein Notices How Awful SFGate Commenters Are, Scolds Them We ourselves tend to avoid doing too much scrolling on SFGate for fear that our eyes will fall upon the shrill, vitriolic, frequently ALL-CAPPED stupidity that is their commenter pool. Today, Phil Bronstein
SF News Chronicle Staffers Gossip About SFGate Paywall to Charity Case Online News Site On the Bay Citizen's weekend edition, the burning-someone-else's money (but still free) publication reports (sort of) on the Hearst Corporation's sudden decision to (maybe) put a majority of the free content on SFGate.
SF News <strike><em>SF Chronicle</em> To Throw Party For Gavin Newsom</strike> Gavin Newsom To Host Focus Group For <em>SF Chronicle</em> (Updated) Oh, what fun. Objectivity takes a back seat to what will hopefully be a swank bash for San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. See, along with Bloomberg, the SF Chronicle is throwing a party
SF News SFGate's Mark Fiore Nabs Pulitzer Prize A local online type is reaping heavy praise after the Pulitzer Prizes were announced this afternoon. SFGate's animated political cartoonist Mark Firoe won for editorial cartooning, cited for his "animated cartoons appearing on
misc Blogging Protip: Thwart SFGate's Copy/Paste Sneakiness Under the impression that online internet world wide webloggers are swiping their golden nuggets of wisdom without linkage, SFGate recently infused their site with inane cross-scripting nonsense that automatically adds a url link
SF News Breaking: SFGate Headline Brazenly Alludes to F-Word We are highly offended that, in a headline, SFGate uses an acronym that includes a letter that stands for the word "fuck." Loony SFGate commenters are, of course, nutting over it as well.
misc Getty Brothers Update Well. Hm. So, it looks like the Getty brothers posted another web-log entry over the weekend. They write about drinking lemon juice. Or miracle fruit. Or liquid acid. We can't say for sure.
SF News The Case of the Missing Newsom Op-Ed Piece Solved Conspiracy theorists freaked the holy hell out this morning over a piece penned by Phil Bronstein -- one that was critical of Gavin Newsom as California's next governor -- which was pulled. Or
SF News Peter Getty Responds to SFist's Getty Death Wish Oh wow. OK, don't be jealous, but one Mr. Peter Getty, it seems, responded to SFist's little ol' post about their new business venture: web-logging for SFGate. Behold: The decision to disable comments
SF News Mommy Blogger Fakes Pregnancy For Commenter Attention This story may not beat the Napa gal who faked her cancer so that she could collect donations and disability, but it comes close! We find today, via SFGate's Mommy Files, that a
SF News Analog-to-Digital Switch Impacting Elderly, Poor and SFGate Technology Writer After more than 60 years of broadcasting in analog, television stations across the nation made the switch to digital today -- following on an Obama-mandated six-month delay so that more outreach could be
SF News Quote du Jour: Accurate Newsom Statement Burns Bridges Dude. When asked recently about the future of SF Chronicle, or lack thereof, SF Mayor Gavin Newsom told The Economist the following: People under 30 won’t even notice. Chortle. Also: true. But
SF News Chronicle Layoffs Today It's rumored that 20 newsroom-based Media Workers Guild employees at the San Francisco Chronicle will be involuntarily laid off today. We're told that a union steward sent a message to its members recommending
SF News Texas Resident SFGate's Most Prolific Commenter Daring to go where no online writer in their right mind should ever, ever, ever go, SF Chronicle's Ryan Kim profiles SFGate's most "prolific" commenters, Kimble McSweeney, a Dallas resident. (!) During the first
SF News Your Day in the Suffocation of Democracy's Oxygen In today's installment of "No One Cares About This Story, So Shut Up and Do Your Job, Journalists," artisan newspaper publication The New York Times -- which is having its own economic problems
SF News The Saddest Thing We've Ever Seen So, your industry is collapsing. Hell, your is collapsing. So, what do you do? Apparently, you do this. We live in an area that has more than its share of luminaries. We're talking
SF News Chronicle Refuses to use Digital Communication, Prefers Phone Seeing as how the entire American Apparel-on-Valencia brouhaha was traffic gold -- and the Gate/Chron is on no financial position to turn down traffic -- it seemed like writing about the AA
misc Mick LaSalle Feeds the Trolls Chronicle film critic turned amateur psychologist Mick LaSalle has a lot to say about those filthy peons known as commenters. Mainly, that they suck. Hard. In his post "The Real You is the