SF Politics What Happens When Billionaires Own the Media: Two Major US Newspapers Decline to Endorse Harris Over a Fascist Endorsements in this year's presidential race by the editorial boards of the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post have been killed by the papers' billionaire owners. What does this say about the state of our media?
SF Politics Washington Post Calls Out ‘Inaccurate’ Reporting by Chesa Boudin’s Local Media Critics The media fascination with Chesa Boudin regularly produces national headlines, but now at least one national news source is casting a skeptical eye on the local news coverage of the SF district attorney.
SF News Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao 'Rooting For The Humans Over The Trolls' In Washington Post Opinion Piece Less than a week after resigning "by mutual agreement" from her post as Interim CEO of the popular Internet forum network Reddit, Ellen Pao has penned a thoughtful opinion article in the Washington
SF News Washington Post Rightfully Bashes SFPD's Mad Skillz The San Francisco Police Department gets trashed (again), this time care of Karl Vick's Washington Post post article on the foibles of our very own Keystone Cops. In it, basically, he reveals that
misc Week Around the -ists Gothamist found that an explosive set off outside the Times Square army recruiting center may be similar to five past bombings in New York City. Seattlest worried when severed right feet and bottles
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Tesla Motors' Roadster- the Electric Edsel? Are there any similarities here with this car? Some hyperbolic coverage from the MSM makes us wonder a bit. Here's an opinion from Washington Post-affiliated Slate - the author was "unbelievably stoked", even
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Ed Jew preliminary. [Chron] -- SFPD station receives a car holding a dead body inside. [Examiner] -- Bring out your garbage cans! [KRON4] -- UN Chief Ban Ki-moon comes to SF. [Washington
SF News Testimony In Gonzales Case Says Maybe San Francisco AG Deserved It? You've undoubted heard by now of the controversy where AG AG (That's Attorney General Alberto Gonzales) fired a bunch of people for apparently less than above-board reasons. Well, maybe he had a good
SF News Catching up With Tech News A few interesting tech stories have come out recently. Hey, we can't do Gavin all day. The Washington Post is reporting today that the State Department has come up with a new, super
SF News Insert Clever Feature Title Here Needless to say, we do have some Pelosi & Pals news today as the Washington Post has a big feature on some anti-lobbying bill she's been working on for awhile that could see
SF News California Catches Impeachment Fever Anyways, the bill has made it through the California Assembly Rules Committee which voted to approve the bill so they can consider it later. Huh? Actually, the vote was to amend a previous
SF News -Ist-A-Palooza Phillyist notes a fistfight between local pols that leaves one man down for the count. Jehovah's Witnesses get a Philly contributor out of bed, things get a little geeky with a film festival
Arts & Entertainment Big Changes at Tribe.net The very definition of a 'chilling effect' on free speech is when legislation or enforcement of new laws are so potentially onerous that people and organization self-censor out of fear and potential liability.
SF News Come On and Take a Free Ride While reading Wonkette yesterday, we found ourselves shocked -- shocked! -- to discover that Nancy Pelosi has accepted $8,580 dollars worth of trips paid for by lobbyists "outside sponsors." Expenses paid for
SF News Nancy Pelosi Gets a Lift We San Franciscan's like to think that we come from a brave and hearty stock. Constantly living under the fear of the next Big One, we're the inheritors of a proud tradition of
SF News SFist at SXSW: Part Five -- Technoblogf**k Tonight we got to hang with our local A-list, which may be B-list as far as the major media mentions go. But we take heart when a BARBARian gets a mention in the
SF News SFist Gift Guide: Packard Jennings We read BoingBoing, even though they give us no love in response. So we saw this great collection of international-style illustrations done by Michael Durham, aka Packard Jennings (we're not totally sure which
SF News But Can She Cook? SFist loves to hate the Chron. They haven't won a Pulitzer for reporting since 1952 - which may have something to do with the fact that we can't remember ever buying the Sunday
