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Chronicle Writes Conflicting Stories on King Day Breakfast
The Chronicle has recently devoted considerable space to stories about faked memoirs (James Frey’s bestseller) and authors (J.T. Leroy) who do not really exist. It’s now time for the paper to explain how it wrote two stories on consecutive days that completely contradicted each other. On Tuesday, Carla Marinucci reported that the “New” Arnold Schwarzenegger got a “surprisingly warm welcome” from the heavily Democratic breakfast crowd. But on Wednesday, the Chronicle’s Matier & Ross reported that the Governor’s appearance “angered city labor leaders” in attendance, and that the governor’s appearance “set off fireworks, some of which are still exploding.” Rather than wait for the paper to get its story straight, we will reveal which Chronicle story told the truth.
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One day after Marinucci’s phony account of an Arnold lovefest appeared on the Chronicle’s front page, Matier & Ross attempted to salvage what little credibility the paper has left in its coverage of the Governor. The columnists explained that, as other Bay Area media wrote, the crowd reaction to the Governor was outright hostile.
In fact, there was only one Democrat who gave Schwarzenegger a warm welcome, and that was former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. Brown has always known where his bread is buttered, and he stands to benefit more from a close relationship with California’s Governor than from aligning himself with a bunch of labor leaders whose endorsements and votes he no longer needs.
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One fact in Marinucci’s story that she did get right: Supervisor Chris Daly was the only person to walk out before the Governor took the stage. But while the Chronicle thought putting this fact on the front page would hurt Daly, District 6’s overwhelming rejection of Schwarzenegger’s November ballot initiatives says otherwise.
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One day after Marinucci’s phony account of an Arnold lovefest appeared on the Chronicle’s front page, Matier & Ross attempted to salvage what little credibility the paper has left in its coverage of the Governor. The columnists explained that, as other Bay Area media wrote, the crowd reaction to the Governor was outright hostile.
In fact, there was only one Democrat who gave Schwarzenegger a warm welcome, and that was former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. Brown has always known where his bread is buttered, and he stands to benefit more from a close relationship with California’s Governor than from aligning himself with a bunch of labor leaders whose endorsements and votes he no longer needs.
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One fact in Marinucci’s story that she did get right: Supervisor Chris Daly was the only person to walk out before the Governor took the stage. But while the Chronicle thought putting this fact on the front page would hurt Daly, District 6’s overwhelming rejection of Schwarzenegger’s November ballot initiatives says otherwise.
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http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=2853#more
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