From the SF Weekly Grid, Week of December 17 - 23, 1997 ....

"While we’re asking obvious questions, we may as well address this one to the San Francisco Chronicle: Now that the Examiner has beaten you silly on one of the bigger stories of the year, are you ever going to get in the game? We speak, of course, of a recent Examiner series on the expenditure of some $1 million in City of S.F. funds for various “special events,” ...

But the wasting or misappropriation of hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars is another story entirely, and a much more important one. It’s a story that the hazy, lazy editors at the Chronicle should force their semiclueless City Hall reporters to follow and, one would hope, to advance. Or, at least, one would hope the Week of December 17 - 23, 1997 might act like a real newspaper and investigate apparent corruption at City Hall, if one were not absolutely convinced that the Chronicle is not a news organization at all, but a home-delivered marketing program cleverly disguised to look like a major metropolitan newspaper."

Perhaps this is not completely fair - some of the Chronicle writers do a conscious job, but it is hard not to come the conclusion that the Chron is fairly gutless and prefers not to rock any boats. Some suggestions ...

-- richard (zpub@sirius.com), December 20, 1997