Posted on 10/14/2014 5:18:21 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
Employees of San Francisco Print Media Company, the parent company of the Examiner, SF Weekly, and San Francisco Bay Guardian were this morning informed that the latter paper will be shuttered after 48 years.
The paper was founded by husband and wife Jean Dibble and Bruce Brugmann — whose visage, urging locals to "Read my paper, dammit" — grew ubiquitous over the years. Its founding mission was to "print the news and raise hell," and, as an independent paper, it ostensibly did just that for 46 years. In 2012 Brugmann and Dibble sold the Guardian to the San Francisco Media Company, which subsequently acquired the Weekly last year. After decades of lawsuits and acrimony, the dueling San Francisco weeklies were situated next door to one another, within the same office suite.
That situation changed today, however.
"Unfortunately, the economic reality is such that the Bay Guardian is not a viable business and has not been for many years," wrote SFMC publisher Glenn Zuehls in the interoffice communique "When SFMC took over the publication, the company believed the publication’s finances could rise out of the red and benefit from joining forces with the Examiner and the Weekly. We have tried hard to make that happen over the past few years. ... Since then, I have come to realize that this isn’t possible and that the obstacles for a profitable Bay Guardian are too great to overcome. The amount of money that the Bay Guardian loses each week is causing damage to the heart of the company and cannot justify its continued publication. The success of this company, providing the highest quality journalism for our readers along with superior results for our advertisers, is my sole priority."
(Excerpt) Read more at sfweekly.com ...
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So loooooonnng SCUMBAGS!
You can hear the lamentations of their trannies...
“Another Communist agitation birdcage liner goes down.”
Next, that Commie “mouthpiece,” radio station KPFA over in Berzerkley! If that were to happen, the beards on all the “street people” would catch fire!
wow I haven’t seen a Guardian since I moved to marin in the late seventies
it was ubiquitous in the east bay....Oakland and Berserkeley..
The end of an era...oh well.../
I think this is the one that Michael Savage hated.
You be right, and Savage wasn't the only one.
How much did they pay for this dying rag in 2012?
Doctor Raoul used to be the one to post this:
Raoul’s First Law of Journalism
BIAS = LAYOFFS
I honestly don't know, but the Guardian has been subsidized by suckers for decades. Leftist proles will never pay for anything they can steal.
BIAS = LAYOFFS
Yep, and that is a Natural Law of Journalism, as well.
No love for its politics, but I am sad to see it go.
however much they lost, they probably deserved it
Good riddance to the faggoty rag.
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