SF Weekly Launches New Attack on Alternative Press

by Randy Shaw via Beyond Chron

Tue, Sep 30, 2008 7:13AM

Monday, September 29, 2008 : The SF Weekly just can’t help itself when it comes to trying to undermine independent media sources. Earlier this year, a San Francisco jury verdict found that the publication had long engaged in predatory pricing against the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and awarded damages of over $15.5 million. Now the San Francisco outlet of the Village Voice media chain is seeking to undercut the Berkeley Daily Planet, running a story this week that promotes ad hominen attacks against the paper’s editor, Becky O’Malley.

Significantly for a publication whose ethics have been found wanting by both a judge and jury, the SF Weekly legitimizes accusations against O’Malley that could similarly be raised against editors of almost all publications, and which are utterly without merit.

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