Yep. “SF Gate City Brights Blogger Program Terminated Monday,” is true, and I’m happy. But before I get to my frankly self-serving reasons, a recap of how I learned of this. Monday afternoon, a friend passed an email to me from Alana Nguyen, the Executive Producer of SFGate.com. This is what it read: Dear City […]
Tag: Hearst Corporation
Rick Perry Gay Rumors Posts Get Blogger Banned From SF Chronicle
Here’s an update to the original Zennie62.com blog post: it seems a Houston-based blog picked up my lasted re-telling of the “Is Rick Perry Gay?” question the mainstream media has avoided asking. Here’s what Chicago Pride wrote: Houston — Some bloggers want Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry to answer one simple question: “Are you gay?” […]
SF Gate.com Ex Dir Alana Nguyen Blocks Zennie62 Without Cause
Alana Nguyen, the new Executive Director of SFGate.com, has blocked Zennie62 from further blog postings on the website of the San Francisco Chronicle. The exact reason for the sudden action wasn’t stated in the email sent to announce it, but emails and conversations the day before pointed to a sudden concern for a blog subject […]
Murdoch Scandal: SF Chronicle’s Phil Bronstein On Journalism and Death
For the second time in over a year, this blogger paid a visit to the legendary Phil Bronstein, the San Francisco Chronicle‘s Executive Vice President and Editor-At-Large for the last three years. The last time Bronstein and I talked, it was an epic video on Google, Rupert Murdoch, the SF Chronicle, and the media. Epic […]
Rupert Murdoch, News Of The World, and Phil Bronstein’s Disappointing Take
As you may know, News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch elected to shut down the 168-year-old News Of The World, the UK’s famous tabloid paper, because of allegations of alleged police bribery and phone hacking, for starters (looks like there’s more news coming). On this, I contacted Hearst Corporation’s Executive Vice President and Editor-At-Large Phil Bronstein […]