Comments on: Chronicle deletes Newsom story

By: ODDitie415

ODDitie415 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:39:16 +0000

All of this: distraction, distraction, distraction.

LOOK at what was written and notice where your focus went. Notice where it didn’t go, like for instance the faulty premise of “leaders” and “leadership”.

Ella Baker said it, “Strong people, don’t need strong leaders.” So for those of us wanting more current thinking on how we need a transformative leadership strucutures, we might be satisfied here: http://progressiveresourcecatalog.org/index.php/Workshop/Comment

For the skimmers, I suggest you start after “In his book Leadership, …”

By: Mack

Mack — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:23:29 +0000

I guess the SF Chronicle doesn’t know much about cached web pages even though the column was “removed” online.

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfgate.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Farticle.cgi%3Ff%3D%2Fc%2Fa%2F2009%2F07%2F20%2FED1U18PHEF.DTL&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

By: cedichou

cedichou — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:10:55 +0000

There are a few threads here: first, check out Bronstein’s blog, where he explain why the thing is not online anymore. Basically, it was never supposed to be, human error, etc. Phil’s Monday column is supposed to be a “print only” experiment.

Second, Phil is a noted Gavin hater. And the Chron’s political team (Carla Marinucci, Carolyn Lochhead, Phil) has a very noted Republican bias.

Third, the Chron has been a lapdog for Newsom. But what happened? Well, it’s easy. Running for Mayor, he was running against Matt Gonzales, to his left. The Chron picked the conservative candidate, as always, that his Gavin. In the gubernatorial election, the Republican candidate has a shot, so the Chron will undermine Gavin: he isn’t the most conservative candidate in the running. Thus Bronstein’s crusade.

By: shea

shea — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:34:50 +0000

Why do people always assume malice when error is usually to blame? In any case, Bronstein’s column has always been print only, a Gate staffer just fucked up and posted it, then removed it. See here:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/bronstein/detail?blogid=47&entry_id=44011

I was a fan of this blog, but this irresponsible post does a disservice to the many hardworking people at the Chronicle, many of whom, when they write criticisms of public officials, actually put a name to their words. You, with your unbylined posts and your proxy registration, could stand to learn something from them. What do you have to lose by being an open critic of the mayor? Your anonymity seems cowardly.

By: Andy Blue

Andy Blue — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:13:16 +0000

Brent,
Yeah, we won’t be “reading much into it for the time being” because it’s been pulled from the site! Btw, Bronstein is just an “editor at large” at the Chronicle. He’s not the boss anymore. And a few critical pieces aside, the Chronicle has been the lap dog for Newsom his entire political career.

By: BrentLA

BrentLA — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:25:07 +0000

Phil Bronstein is the Editor of the SF Chronicle. I really, really doubt that somebody pulled his columns for editorial reasons. He’s been critical of Gavin for a while now. I don’t know that I’d read that much into this for the time being.