Chronicle Wants To 'Smash' Competitors; Is This Sad?
Chronicle Metro Section Editor Audrey Cooper sent out a memo to staff last week that touched on Warren Hellman’s Bay Area News Project. While she didn’t mention it by name, she did say that her staff will “smash whomever is naive enough to poke their noses in our market.”
Eve Batey, who is the editor and publisher of the San Francisco Appeal, thinks that’s sad.
Everyone who is wringing their hands and saying WE NEED TO SAVE NEWSPAPERS is afraid we’re going to lose smart, professional stories from people who will uncover injustice and change lives and do all that other stuff that only a free press can do.
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