SF Chronicle fails to correct lie about SFAF salary

Whether she's making $182k or $185k or $207k, either way the woman is taking home bank and living the good life off of a supposed charity. What difference does $22k make up at that altitude? (Besides, at that point she's probably getting raped by taxes. She'll be lucky if she gets to keep even half of the disputed difference.)

For us middle-class working stiffs, the numerical difference is entirely academic, and the Chronicle is doing no great disservice. The discrepancy is odd, but far from worth the repeated effort you're making to draw attention to it.

What's more important is that she makes that much money at all - no doubt an issue of interest to anyone who donates to that charity, expecting their money to go to helping the sick instead of helping Pat live a life of luxury.

Or is that point your real intent? Perhaps you figured the liberal SFIMC audience wont bite an invitation to bash the SF AIDS Foundation, but will bite if you spin it as an opportunity to bash the SF Chronicle?

*SJ

Journalistic integrity is always important, and since the SF Chronicle is the newspaper of record of Northern California, it has an even greater obligation to adhere to basic journalism principles. The difference may not be much to those who make 6-figure salaries, but it is significant enough to justify a correction. It is outrageous that they printed the wrong figure at all as the correct figure is readily available, and all figures should be verified by any serious journalist and editor.

A member of the workingclass is not middle class; we are workingclass. People who make $60,000 to $300,000 are middle class and beyond $300,000 they are simply the upper class. The ruling capitalist class are those who own the means of production. They are the top 1/2 of 1% of the population.

All of these charity rackets are by definition theft of our labor as they are the surplus of the rich given to avoid paying taxes; that is, charities are tax write-offs for the rich, which means we, the workingclass are subsidizing these charities. The money given is our stolen labor in the form of profits.

Whatever serious social service work these charities do can and should be done directly the government, where there are more accountability procedures required and where the labor force is likely to be unionized. These charities are a form of contracting-out.

There is nothing liberal about San Francisco Independent Media. This is clearly a website that has no use for the Democrat-Republicans or their capitalist society; that supports the Palestinian liberation struggle and whose grassroots reporters are not afraid to tell the truth about this society.

Three cheers for ACTUP-SF. Keep exposing the thieves and liars!

Unfortunately, today's Chronicle does not contain a correction about their mistake regarding the $207,000 annual salary for the head of the SF AIDS Foundation.

If you want the truth about high salaries at SFAF being cut, you must read the SF Examiner or the Bay Area Reporter. Both of these papers correctly report the SFAF director makes $207,000, not $185,000 as incorrectly claimed in Wednesday's Chronicle.