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Lawsuit filed over voter registration arrest
Register a voter, go to jail.— September 17, 2012 8:13 a.m.
Could Imperial Valley Become Owens Valley?
Don Bauder has gotten down to the page yet another story with the potential to expose San Diego's permanent government. Development is the local equivalent of the arms and investment banking industry (pretty much our major national job creator, and a San Diego partner). The model is old and we're near bankruptcy already; there isn't enough money in consumer pockets to buy homes already planted at San Diego's margins. But developers, people like Papa Manchester, and outside investment banks will continue to suck the already dry well. Mention the solution to our water problem -- desalination -- and suddenly an army of DeMaios rises up to smother the idea. I'll bet on desalination. If it works for Saudi Arabia, Israel and the island of Mallorca it will work for this desert paradise.— June 20, 2012 9:27 a.m.
Local TV News is Non-News
Thank you Matthew and Mungo for opening up this cavern of sorrows. You both probably know that everything from travel to education to legislation to journalism have become commodities in a capitalized world. When efficiency experts look at a newsroom they see 10 or 25 percent cuts of staff, and that's when the dolphin stories start appearing. (At the old Evening Tribune we joked about the staff seagull that on slow news days always made a full-color front-page appearance on page one.) The mistakes and crimes committed by powerful evildoers are many, and are the sorts of stories news organizations have got to pursue if this world of ours is to make sense again. But because the evidence is hidden or deleted and witnesses are paid money to button their lips and armies of p.r. people and lobbyists are deployed to patch holes in the corporate armor or write loopholes into law the reporting gets too expensive for the profit-minded and in fact threatens their incomes. The news ain't free in a money-driven society, tragically.— June 13, 2012 9:46 a.m.
Another Honest Journalist Canned by U-T
Manchester is a foreigner to newspapers; he sees them as part of Big Capital, and the traditional part print news has played in the billionaire’s world is public relations. You don’t do journalism if you’re Big Capital, you buy it. Now that he’s bought the newspaper he doesn’t have to buy it again. I think this is a concept a bit beyond (below?) that of Murdoch, who only owned newspapers and television stations, or, for that matter, the old Copley regime, which was an out an out reign of restorationist terror. Any journalist who worked at the old Copley U-T knew that he/she had a chance of saving a good story from the waste can either because the editors’ heads didn’t move swiftly enough to overcome arguments, or sometimes because even Copley’s editors had been journalists before and recognized a real story when they saw it, though it might scorch the toes of the numerous elites in town. What Jeff Light is making clear is A.J. Liebling's old dicta: "The free press belongs to the man who owns it."— June 3, 2012 11:26 a.m.
Push Me, Pull You, Arrest Me at California State University Headquarters
Police have been running government for some time now. City council members, university chancellors and presidents might toss and turn in the middle of the night when they consider the power they've failed to exercise over their cops, but they will continue to look the other way when the cops start thugging. Thank you Marty Block, Joe Deegan and the Reader for taking your jobs more seriously than our putative leaders take theirs.— January 25, 2012 8:26 a.m.
Redevelopment promoters weep over supreme court decision
I can't remember when Don Bauder wrote something I disagreed with, and the downfall of the great redevelopment scam is as important to San Diego as, say, an honest daily newspaper would be.— January 18, 2012 10:23 a.m.
Manchester Purchase of Union-Tribune Raises Questions of Timing
This capture of the U-T brand name might at first glance seem to be a restoration of San Diego to its plutocratic past, when Illinois utility baron Ira Copley rode into town and installed his lackeys in positions of power, and the town was treated to the rise of C. Arnholt Smith, who, with James Copley's help, proceeded to own banking, tuna canning, the Padres, Pacific Southwest Airlines.... but no, Doug Manchester isn't the guy who's gonna infect our minds. San Diego's a different place now, more digital than real, more a part of a globalism and therefore less likely to fall to a single band of local money barons. It's gonna get more interesting now that Pious Doug Manchester has purchased his Bullshit Horn. Let's all get to work!— November 17, 2011 10:20 a.m.