Re: My Letter to the SF Chronicle Cancelling My Subscription

There's a particular sense of elitism and conformity within San Francisco's rich diversity which inhibits our ability to tackle the issue of stoping corporate and racist consciousness spreaded by our local media. Sure, we can tackle Clear Channel and KQED for a day or two, but wouldn't it be more effective to tackle i.e. the Chronicle in large force and consistently as this seems to program us effectively with much garbage on a daily basis? Praise to Mrs. Wendy Campbell's initiative.

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My Letter to the SF Chronicle Cancelling My Subscription
by Wendy Campbell Tuesday May 27, 2003 at 10:21 AM


Enough is enough! I could no longer avoid the conclusion that the SF Chronicle is a waste of time, trees and energy.



May 26, 2003


Mr. Phil Bronstein
San Francisco Chronicle


Dear Mr. Bronstein,

I have finally decided to cancel my subscription to the San Francisco Chronicle.

What finally made me do it was first of all the firing of Henry Norr, a very courageous, very accurate, very conscientious journalist whose writing I sincerely admired.

Secondly, I am very tired of reading articles and editorials that put all the blame on the Palestinians for "terror" when Israel is committing terror on a much grander scale every single day, using our tax dollars, while stealing more and more of the Palestinians' land!

I am tired of reading the biased reporting of writers like Don Lattin who writes in one sentence "Jewish extremists and Muslim terrorists" --- do you get it? Why is it always the Muslims who get stuck with the "T" word, yet Jewish terrorists are always referred to as merely "extremists"?

I am tired of seeing erroneous, misinformed letters by blatantly racist Jewish Zionists get published, and yet any letter that is strongly anti-Zionism (and with very good reason) is never published!

I am tired of the scant reporting on the violence and terror that the Palestinians must deal with every day under Israeli occupation. Why don't you ever show an Israeli bulldozer demolishing the home of a Palestinian, which is almost an everyday occurrence, on the front page of the Chronicle?

Why don't you do followup stories on Rachel Corrie and how the Israeli army harrassed the mourners at her funeral?

Why do you allow writers like Don Lattin get away with using the insultingly mild words "displacement of Palestinians" when referring to the violent explusion of Palestinian people from their homeland by the Israeli terrorists who demolished entire Palestinian villages massacring all their inhabitants which happened when Israel was immorally created?

I can no longer justify reading such a biased and misleading newspaper as the San Francisco Chronicle.

Sincerely,



Wendy Campbell
Oakland, CA 94610


cc: Dick Rodgers, Reader's Rep