Comments on: Letter to the SF Chronicle… http://voteforchicken.com/2007/10/24/letter-to-the-sf-chronicle/ city of art and innovation Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:10:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Dav http://voteforchicken.com/2007/10/24/letter-to-the-sf-chronicle/#comment-673 Dav Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:52:48 +0000 http://voteforchicken.com/2007/10/24/letter-to-the-sf-chronicle/#comment-673 Wow, that's about the most lucid pithy thing from Chicken John I've ever read. Not to mention the best spell-checked. Wow, that’s about the most lucid pithy thing from Chicken John I’ve ever read. Not to mention the best spell-checked.

]]> By: Buffy V http://voteforchicken.com/2007/10/24/letter-to-the-sf-chronicle/#comment-670 Buffy V Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:52:16 +0000 http://voteforchicken.com/2007/10/24/letter-to-the-sf-chronicle/#comment-670 Chick, you are already doing such an excellent job of representing and speaking up for your constituency, as well as articulating the needs of the community at large. I knew you'd be good but you're better than that, even! All that courageousness over the years picks up momentum and serves mankind. The world's traditions say the alchemist's stone is always found in a pile of dung. Keep diggin, man, you are onto something so big. Chick, you are already doing such an excellent job of representing and speaking up for your constituency, as well as articulating the needs of the community at large. I knew you’d be good but you’re better than that, even! All that courageousness over the years picks up momentum and serves mankind.

The world’s traditions say the alchemist’s stone is always found in a pile of dung. Keep diggin, man, you are onto something so big.

]]> By: #3 http://voteforchicken.com/2007/10/24/letter-to-the-sf-chronicle/#comment-658 #3 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:51:55 +0000 http://voteforchicken.com/2007/10/24/letter-to-the-sf-chronicle/#comment-658 i'm looking at the ARTWORK out front-very realistic rendering ofDEBRIS, STREWN ACROSS THE GROUND with intuitive flair-and to think of culturaly deprived MENIAL ZOMBIES decimating this ....bhgnmiluhrmgnfhrujkmmxcck ovate i’m looking at the ARTWORK out front-very realistic rendering ofDEBRIS, STREWN ACROSS THE GROUND with intuitive flair-and to think of culturaly deprived MENIAL ZOMBIES decimating this ….bhgnmiluhrmgnfhrujkmmxcck ovate

]]> By: dod http://voteforchicken.com/2007/10/24/letter-to-the-sf-chronicle/#comment-620 dod Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:02:19 +0000 http://voteforchicken.com/2007/10/24/letter-to-the-sf-chronicle/#comment-620 well put. the chron is a sham. the examiner is a far superior rag to read in the shitter. well put. the chron is a sham. the examiner is a far superior rag to read in the shitter.

]]> By: This Just In! « Bars By The Book http://voteforchicken.com/2007/10/24/letter-to-the-sf-chronicle/#comment-612 This Just In! « Bars By The Book Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:11:50 +0000 http://voteforchicken.com/2007/10/24/letter-to-the-sf-chronicle/#comment-612 [...] Why you should vote for Mr. Rinaldi, too. [...] [...] Why you should vote for Mr. Rinaldi, too. [...]

]]> By: James Lamb http://voteforchicken.com/2007/10/24/letter-to-the-sf-chronicle/#comment-606 James Lamb Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:12:28 +0000 http://voteforchicken.com/2007/10/24/letter-to-the-sf-chronicle/#comment-606 Actually, the Chronicle's problem was that they had been suffering from staff bloat, people with whatever connections being on the payroll, but rarely showing up to work, or getting a full salary for writing very little. The dot-com bust and loss of advertising to the internet is slowly taking care of that problem, like a slow-motion train wreck. Oh, and the typos were due to a new computer system that none of the senior editors knew how to use. We're talking senior editors who are wistful for the days of typewriters and blue pencils. The people on staff who remember when knowing the spelling of a word was more important than finding the shortest acronym for text messaging. They say, "never argue in public with someone who buys ink by the barrel." Nearly every publication has its sacred cows, and that would be #1. major advertisors, and #2. friends of the publisher. ...and any in-depth reporting is carefully vetted through those channels (the reporter answers to the editor who answers to the publisher who answers to #1 and #2). While the internet is making inroads, much is still just chatter among the "people who don't matter." Democracy ? It's really a game of tossing the piece of meat in one direction or another among the pack of wolves. p.s. I was once rather dismayed that a "journalist" who was quoted in my blog was upset that the quote was actually attributed to them. So I cite no sources for the info above, and as bland as what I said may be, in the rarefied social world of those tenuous connections, may have burned what remained of that bridge. I'll no longer be invited to "White House press conferences," so to speak. Actually, the Chronicle’s problem was that they had been suffering from staff bloat, people with whatever connections being on the payroll, but rarely showing up to work, or getting a full salary for writing very little.

The dot-com bust and loss of advertising to the internet is slowly taking care of that problem, like a slow-motion train wreck. Oh, and the typos were due to a new computer system that none of the senior editors knew how to use. We’re talking senior editors who are wistful for the days of typewriters and blue pencils. The people on staff who remember when knowing the spelling of a word was more important than finding the shortest acronym for text messaging.

They say, “never argue in public with someone who buys ink by the barrel.” Nearly every publication has its sacred cows, and that would be #1. major advertisors, and #2. friends of the publisher. …and any in-depth reporting is carefully vetted through those channels (the reporter answers to the editor who answers to the publisher who answers to #1 and #2). While the internet is making inroads, much is still just chatter among the “people who don’t matter.” Democracy ? It’s really a game of tossing the piece of meat in one direction or another among the pack of wolves.

p.s. I was once rather dismayed that a “journalist” who was quoted in my blog was upset that the quote was actually attributed to them. So I cite no sources for the info above, and as bland as what I said may be, in the rarefied social world of those tenuous connections, may have burned what remained of that bridge. I’ll no longer be invited to “White House press conferences,” so to speak.

]]> By: Nieves http://voteforchicken.com/2007/10/24/letter-to-the-sf-chronicle/#comment-605 Nieves Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:15:06 +0000 http://voteforchicken.com/2007/10/24/letter-to-the-sf-chronicle/#comment-605 Yeah! That's right, you tell 'em! way to go Yeah!
That’s right, you tell ‘em!

way to go

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