NYTIMES/ MEDIA DECODER BLOG/ David Carr highlights the Seattle Stranger's account of the protracted legal battle between two SF Bay area weekly newspapers that has taken bizarre twists and turns, including “seized delivery vans, murderous editors, irate blog posts, allegations of insanity, connections to the Church of Satan, illegal predatory-pricing schemes and more than $21 million on the line.” (Editor's full disclosure: I began my journalism career reporting for the SF Bay Guardian while still an undergrad at Stanford. I crashed on publisher Bruce Brugmann's huge leather couch and dated the paper's art director and Brugmann's ex-inlaw but have had no contact in a decade. Nevertheless, the ongoing saga is fascinating...even jaw-dropping.)
Posts