Wendy, What Went Wrong?--Santa Barbara NewsPress Pogrom Continues

Up in sunny Santa Barbara, the plucky editors of the Santa Barbara Independent publish a letter from former NewsPress editor Bob Guiliano to Mayor Marty Blum. Seems Wendy McCaw(ful) wasn’t happy with a story written by Anna Davison about a downtown renovation project, and wanted Davison reprimanded for bias–she’d quoted the Mayor more than once, and that was too much for the Empress of the NewsPress.

Guilano wrote:

I advised Wendy that having Anna write a news story saying there’s a controversy, when none exists except for the one on our editorial page, would make the newspaper look bad, as if we were creating a controversy to sell newspapers.

So

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