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By Arthur Bruzzone (06/15/07)
It’s been a bad month for Left Coast newspapers. All in one week, the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times and the San Jose Mercury announced 25% cuts in their writing staffs. My hometown’s San Francisco Chronicle has suffered the most. About $25 million lost in just the first four months of 2007 - That’s $1 million a week piled onto the $330 million the paper has lost since Hearst Corporation bought it for $600 million in 2000.
I’ve been fortunate to meet many seasoned and fair Chronicle journalists who are getting the ax. The problem lies at the top --- those who decide what stories, what layout, and the language of the headlines. Few of the honchos at the top will get a pink slip. So the financial slide will continue.
True, industry trends explain the losses, in part. But the San Francisco Chronicle, in particular – anchored in a city of passionate, articulate, minority groups -- has a deeper problem. Evangelical political correctness or the need to be ‘progressive’. The Chron has played to these groups. It’s fashionable, and the Chronicle presumes profitable. They ignore the thousands of families, small business owners, homeowners, and workers Instead The Chronicle has been hammering its readers for years now with their version of what’s news. In their choice of the stories, their editorialized style of reporting, headlines, layout, six-part series, and commentators, they have been interpreting, not reporting, the news. Too many in San Francisco have been indoctrinated to believe that the Chronicle’s worldview is accurate. It’s the same story in the Southland at the Los Angeles Times. Both mimic the king of opinionated news reporting – the New York Times.
To make financial matters worse for the Chronicle, their largely biased news is available for free online.
Slanting the news was doomed from the start. Online journals, blogs, and forums do a better job of presenting biased news. They do it not just daily, but hourly. Take for example, the impact of left leaning sites on the Democrat party. At the same time, specialized journals, in print and online, do a better job of reporting actual news. The writing and reporting is brisk and upbeat. The reader interprets the big picture.
No one should be surprised over the newspapers’ demise. Big city writers are predominantly liberal (65%), voted for Democrats (90%), and are either atheist or agnostics (45%), according to a study by S. Robert Lichter and Stanley Rothman. A Los Angeles Times study of 3,000 journalists at 621 newspapers confirmed these stats.
The deeper problem is that the a majority of older news writers and their editors are fixated on the sixties. When two lowly reporters for the Washington Post brought down President Nixon, newspaper editors saw themselves on a messianic mission every time a Republican sits in the White House. The sixties empowered editors to bring the reader to their point of view, not to the story. Gay issues over family issues, illegal immigration over legal entrant issues. The list goes on. Of course, then there’s the war – not in Vietnam, in Iraq, though they can hardly tell the difference. Advocacy has replaced investigation. But Woodward and Bernstein were successful in the seventies because of their tireless effort to uncover, not insinuate the story of Watergate.
To stop the free fall, newspapers had better return to finding and explicating the news---- and leave their opinions on the opinion pages where they belong.
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Arthur Bruzzone is a well known San Francisco Bay Area political media
commentator, an award- winning public affairs TV producer, talk show host,
and served four years as Chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party. He
has written over 150 political articles for national and regional media, and
has appeared or commented on political issues for American, European, and
Asian television and radio networks.
Art Bruzzone has been published in local, state, and national journals
including the Wall Street Journal. He's been a regular online columnist at
AmericanDaily.com, previously featured columnist at Townhall.com and other
gateway sites. He is editor of Counterviews.com.
Media Appearances include guest or commentator on major national network
news programs, CNN, CNN Headline News, CNN-TV, BBC-TV, French TV, local
affiliated and independent TV Stations. He served as talk show host for
KSFO-AM, San Francisco. He's been a Panelist or guest covering national,
state-local, and environmental issues. Bruzzone has been quoted in the NY
Times, LA Times, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today and on urban policy,
international politics, and urban environmentalism
Bruzzone is a former Peace Corps Volunteer and owner an investment real
estate company, Bruzzone Strategic Investments. He holds a MBA from Golden
Gate University, and a MA in Philosophy from CUA, Washington, DC.
He has served as State Commissioner on the Bay Conservation and Development
Commission, Chair of San Francisco Republican Party, and Vice Chair of the
Count Chairs Association of the California Republican Party.
To unwind, Bruzzone, engages in long distance in-line speed skating, open
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