New Union-Tribune Owner Defends 'Cheerleader' Journalism*

The San Diego Union-Tribune‘s new owner Douglas Manchester and his CEO John Lynch were on with KPBS San Diego’s Joanne Faryon last night to defend recent comments that their paper would be transitioning into a “cheerleader” role for the city of San Diego and its business community. Raise your hand if you feel any sunnier about the future of Southern California journalism after seeing this video. Anyone? Anyone?

Didn’t think so.

The obvious distinction these two should have made, even it was only lip service, was that there is a difference between the paper’s editorial pages and its news pages.