[LEMONS] 8.23.2001
It's a shame theExaminer doesn't put fresh content online. It's all a dollar short, so to speak. Because, despite the fun I've poked at it from time to time, I'm genuinely rooting for it to succeed. The Chronicle, although it's a good (not great) paper, is about as unique to San Francisco as McDonalds and Coca Cola. Great reporters, Matier and Ross, do not a local paper make. the Examiner, on the other hand, does capture the zany zeitgeist of Babs by the Bay. Sure, it's, er, easy to pick on. But the screaming headlines, Hearst-ian (that's William Randolph, not the current media corporation) muckraking and Krazy Kolumnists--Hunter S. Thompson, PJ--suit it to our city. Today, for example, I loved the front page. It was some OUTRAGED! article or another on the state of Mid-Market. But in the center of the page was an editorial cartoon. One of the characters was saying "pass the bong" or "share the bong." Whichever, the paper not only had the chutzpah to run a cartoon on the front page, they ran one with a drug reference. Outstanding.
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