More desperate breaking news from the city’s daily
In their efforts to come up with a lead story that was even more inconsequential than yesterday’s, the Chronicle’s editors have truly succeeded:
What, are they just screwing with our heads now?
Let’s check out the Examiner’s main story this morning: Newest rail line struggles to get on right track; Ridership, speeds lag for Muni’s Third Street train. Pretty close, but not quite as trivial as the Chronicle.
How about the San Jose Mercury News?
Mobs rioting downtown, plus an important court decision on California’s overcrowded prisons. (The bike race gets the biggest headline, but that’s just their design; they always play up a feature on the front page.)
I thought San Francisco was in California too! I guess the Chronicle doesn’t think the prisons are too important. After all, what difference does daylight savings time make if you’re a convict? None! So screw ‘em!
Hmmm, maybe tomorrow they’ll put “Rainstorm hits Bay Area” on the front page.
I don’t understand this new “let’s poo on local papers” feature. They may not be great or match your reckoning of local news levels of importance, but I’ll take the Chron any day over the NYT and its east-coast-biased ridiculousness.
And didn’t the Chron get in trouble with you yesterday for making MUNI failures a front page story? Is it less trivial when the Examiner covers it?
If you need California news - cruise over to http://www.rtumble.com - you’ll get all the papers’ greatest hits linked off one page. Avoid the smudgey newsprint too.
I think screwing with our heads and trying to see if anyone will notice.
Mark, you really made me laugh tonight with this!