Comments on: Former Rivals Agree: Newspaper Owner’s Drive To Buy Up SF Publications Is A Good Thing http://sfappeal.com/2013/01/former-rivals-agree-newspaper-owners-drive-to-buy-up-sf-publications-is-a-good-thing/ SF Appeal: San Francisco's Online Newspaper Sun, 06 May 2018 15:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.24 By: Jeremy_ofSF http://sfappeal.com/2013/01/former-rivals-agree-newspaper-owners-drive-to-buy-up-sf-publications-is-a-good-thing/#comment-14232 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:29:10 +0000 http://example.org/former-rivals-agree-newspaper-owners-drive-to-buy-up-sf-publications-is-a-good-thing#comment-14232 I’m a huge fan of the new-look Examiner, and I think the Guardian has added a couple pages of short news stories since they were bought, so I’m all for expansion of the Vogt empire in theory.

But I don’t know if I like the idea of the Weekly and Guardian sharing an owner. I think their adversarial relationship has mostly been a good thing, although it’s been a little overly antagonistic at times. (Thank god the predatory pricing lawsuit is over so we don’t have to see more of those 1000+ word screeds from both sides about obscure legal maneuvers.)

Although it Vogt invested in beefing up the Weekly’s news coverage it might be worth it. The Snitch blog does some great work, and they do some great cover stories (when they’re SF focused), but the fact that they’re only printing one page of other news stories now is kind of sad.

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By: Jeremy_ofSF http://sfappeal.com/2013/01/former-rivals-agree-newspaper-owners-drive-to-buy-up-sf-publications-is-a-good-thing/#comment-23460 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:29:10 +0000 http://example.org/former-rivals-agree-newspaper-owners-drive-to-buy-up-sf-publications-is-a-good-thing#comment-23460 I’m a huge fan of the new-look Examiner, and I think the Guardian has added a couple pages of short news stories since they were bought, so I’m all for expansion of the Vogt empire in theory.

But I don’t know if I like the idea of the Weekly and Guardian sharing an owner. I think their adversarial relationship has mostly been a good thing, although it’s been a little overly antagonistic at times. (Thank god the predatory pricing lawsuit is over so we don’t have to see more of those 1000+ word screeds from both sides about obscure legal maneuvers.)

Although it Vogt invested in beefing up the Weekly’s news coverage it might be worth it. The Snitch blog does some great work, and they do some great cover stories (when they’re SF focused), but the fact that they’re only printing one page of other news stories now is kind of sad.

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By: George Kelly http://sfappeal.com/2013/01/former-rivals-agree-newspaper-owners-drive-to-buy-up-sf-publications-is-a-good-thing/#comment-14231 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:50:32 +0000 http://example.org/former-rivals-agree-newspaper-owners-drive-to-buy-up-sf-publications-is-a-good-thing#comment-14231 It’s more of a thing than a good thing. :-

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By: George Kelly http://sfappeal.com/2013/01/former-rivals-agree-newspaper-owners-drive-to-buy-up-sf-publications-is-a-good-thing/#comment-23459 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:50:32 +0000 http://example.org/former-rivals-agree-newspaper-owners-drive-to-buy-up-sf-publications-is-a-good-thing#comment-23459 It’s more of a thing than a good thing. :-

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By: George Kelly http://sfappeal.com/2013/01/former-rivals-agree-newspaper-owners-drive-to-buy-up-sf-publications-is-a-good-thing/#comment-14230 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:49:14 +0000 http://example.org/former-rivals-agree-newspaper-owners-drive-to-buy-up-sf-publications-is-a-good-thing#comment-14230 It’s a thing. I wouldn’t say it’s a good thing.

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By: George Kelly http://sfappeal.com/2013/01/former-rivals-agree-newspaper-owners-drive-to-buy-up-sf-publications-is-a-good-thing/#comment-23458 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:49:14 +0000 http://example.org/former-rivals-agree-newspaper-owners-drive-to-buy-up-sf-publications-is-a-good-thing#comment-23458 It’s a thing. I wouldn’t say it’s a good thing.

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By: Greg Dewar http://sfappeal.com/2013/01/former-rivals-agree-newspaper-owners-drive-to-buy-up-sf-publications-is-a-good-thing/#comment-14229 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:56:29 +0000 http://example.org/former-rivals-agree-newspaper-owners-drive-to-buy-up-sf-publications-is-a-good-thing#comment-14229 If they buy the weekly, they should boost it so it can have more news in it (it already does a lot and their blogs are really good for short news items), and shut down the morbid Guardian, which does not break any news, has no real staff anymore, and is just a political rag for aging hippies, Ross Mirkaweenie, and a few other white liberals, and is irrelevant to today’s San Francisco.

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By: Greg Dewar http://sfappeal.com/2013/01/former-rivals-agree-newspaper-owners-drive-to-buy-up-sf-publications-is-a-good-thing/#comment-23457 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:56:29 +0000 http://example.org/former-rivals-agree-newspaper-owners-drive-to-buy-up-sf-publications-is-a-good-thing#comment-23457 If they buy the weekly, they should boost it so it can have more news in it (it already does a lot and their blogs are really good for short news items), and shut down the morbid Guardian, which does not break any news, has no real staff anymore, and is just a political rag for aging hippies, Ross Mirkaweenie, and a few other white liberals, and is irrelevant to today’s San Francisco.

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