Wednesday, September 24, 2003
And to be a newspaper in Berkeley...
The East Bay Express has fun. They're a quasi-news "alt-weekly" which has a tendency to piss people off.
Will Harper's Bottom Feeder today, including a picture of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison eating a hot dog (??) and a story about how an anti-tobacco guy bought more cigarettes for his dad so he could rip him off, has this important news/editorial item:
Bottom Feeder hereby urges all journalists to banish the phrase "Birthplace of the Free Speech Movement" from their Berkeley stories. The cliché, as it were, is invariably recycled for stories on the city's most enduring pastime: stealing newspapers.
Berkeley, in fact, has a long, disgraceful history of free newspapers being lifted when their content was deemed objectionable to some zealot -- or mayoral candidate. Matter of fact, we've received several reports of last week's Express -- which took a critical look at Berkeley's heavy-handed preservationists -- being stolen en masse from city racks.
Birthplace perhaps; graveyard definitely.
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