Oh my, the SF Chronicle may fold

Russ Steele

I wonder what the former Editor of the Union, who spent 10 years reporting for the Chronicle, will have to say about this troubling development on his blog.  Ellen and I have been reading the Sunday Chronicle at the Flour Garden every Sunday for years. We used this opportunity to see what California's liberals are up to over the past week, where group think was taking us.  I enjoy Willie Brown's column as his insight is spot on, the funny papers, and the political commentary not necessary in that order. Ellen likes the book section, funnies and front page in-depth California stories. We have noted that every Sunday the paper is getting smaller and smaller. Soon it maybe gone. Oh my!

Consider this from Powerline.

The collapse of the newspaper industry continues apace; now it's the San Francisco Chronicle that is likely to be sold or even closed down in a matter of months. This follows Sunday's bankruptcy filing by the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News, just two and a half years after investors paid more than $500 million for the company.

We've known for a while that the newspaper industry is in desperate trouble, but it didn't occur to us until recently that it may be a leading indicator.

The question on my mind it the Sac Bee next?  My friend George Rebane thinks the Bee is burnt toast on the way to the waste bin in the next year. I am voting with George. But, then what will we read read on Sunday mornings with our coffee to track the latest liberal group think?  No Chron and no Bee, I guess we will have to wait for the Fairness Doctrine to kick in -- and listend to Lib Radio?