The most recent SF Weekly printed a letter from yours truly regarding the slide toward corporate uniformity prevalent in the "alternative weekly" newspaper circle recently (see: Village Voice and New Times Publishing). That they used to be known as "underground" papers seems to be lost on the young journalists working for them in the Bush II age. --Pete
Here 'tis:
Regarding your full-page ad disparaging the venerable San Francisco Bay Guardian, questioning whether I and other readers were insulted, the answer is emphatically, "Yes!" I will no longer read SF Weekly, where the inexorable slide toward corporate journalistic mediocrity appears to be complete. As far as your conspiracy-theory accusations are concerned, don't you think you should have hung them on something other than the Guardian's stellar PG&E monopoly reporting?
Good luck shilling for the man.
By the way, I will miss Katy St. Clair -- the only reason left to read your corporate rag.
Peter Stanislaw
San Jose
http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/mostrecent/letters.html (not a permanent link - look to archived letters 10/26 after 11/02)
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