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Anil Dash comments, and there's a discussion at a Seven Days blog.

That editorial still irritates me, and perfectly illustrates everything I find annoying about politics here and the news media, alternative and mainstream.

I used to love picking up alt-weeklies every week, coming home from school or from work. It wasn't for the listings or the escort ads in the back; it was actually for the writing, and for stories I would never hear about otherwise - about who showed up to those meetings about school closures, what really happened with that girl who died from taking the RU-486 pill, etc. But you know what there was last week? NOTHING. SFBG's cover story was about Kelley Stoltz, a musician who's covered in fucking Entertainment Weekly. EastBayExpress' website keeps crashing my browser, so fuck them, and anyway the cover story's summary actually says "Now he's turned his lens toward, well, racier subjects." I mean, really, what century are we living in? And he's a successful photographer. What happened to highlighting the up and coming, the people you don't know are going to succeed or fail?

Oh yeah, ad dollars.

Oops, I didn't actually mean to go on for that long; I have to say, even though the EastBayExpress site crashed Firefox, Firefox saved my post so I didn't have to rewrite it. I *heart* open source software.
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