San Francisco Bay Guardian founder Bruce B. Brugmann posts (11/3/08) on his paper’s blog about how “the day before the historic vote on the Clean Energy Initiative (Prop H), under vicious multi-million attack by the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, the Hearst-owned San Francisco Chronicle continued its campaign of decades to censor and marginalize the underlying PG&E/Raker Act scandal story”:
PG&E has used its money and muscle to corrupt City Hall and and in effect steal the cheap, clean… public power the city produces from its Hetch Hetchy dam in Yosemite National Park in violation of the public power mandates of the federal Raker Act.
And so, instead of covering the real story and the blazing battle, the Chronicle ran two front-page stories in effect “greenwashing” the real story….
Hearst ran only one decent story and did not do real followups or get into the PG&E politics of how PG&E and its downtown/landlord allies were working viciously to knock out the progressive candidates who supported H.
Brugmann notes that while Hearst “kept running story after story about about all the jolly good ‘green’ things PG&E was doing,” they were “pointedly refusing… calling the [Pro-H] campaign for relevant comment.”
The ChronicLiar, which I wake up to every morning, is basically the in-house rag for the local power brokers. It’s more interesting to read than most city papers in other areas, because it has to pretend to be “liberal” while carrying the water for the corporations such as Chevron, PG&E et al that run the town.
Read Joe Garofoli’s “left beat” spin cycles for prime examples of same.
But wait at least an hour after eating.