Media

No, you can’t ‘save’ queer people by bombing them to death

Bastardizing the fight for gay rights to justify war, whether on Gaza or Iran, is ridiculous and must end.

Editorial Marke B. - June 23, 2025

Media Week: Should Kamala Harris do more press interviews?

Plus: the Chron's Peskin problem, and what is a 'moderate' anyway?

Media Tim Redmond - August 14, 2024

Media Week: The attacks on San Francisco have begun

Plus: Some advice from Bernie Sanders—and how the NY Times missed the point on the A.I revolution.

Media Tim Redmond - August 6, 2024

Media Week: Joe Biden, the party ‘elite,’ and the reality of big political money

Working-class voters seem less and less interested in a Democratic candidate who won't challenge the basic assumptions of neoliberalism.

Media Tim Redmond - July 10, 2024

Media

Media Week: Why is Haney’s dubious campaign spending not a bigger story?

Tim Redmond - June 24, 2024

Plus: If SF is the worst-run city in the country, the data doesn't show it.

Media

Media Week: One crucial (buried) story and two prominent useless ones

Tim Redmond - June 17, 2024

The growth myth, the SF mayor's race, the foolishness of a so-called West Coast 'liberal,' and (for now, funny) and deceptive campaign videos

Media

Support for public power in SF is growing, even—finally—in the news media

Tim Redmond - May 21, 2024

ABC News segment focuses on the Raker Act Scandal; will the mayoral candidates all support the next step? And what's up with Matt Haney?

Media

Wildly inaccurate story leads to death threats for activist, 48hills writer

Tim Redmond - April 14, 2024

Lisa Gray Garcia, who writes as Tiny, gets attacked after New York Post does a sensational story about her work with UCLA medical students.

Media

The New York Times lauds Garry Tan—and it’s really pathetic

Tim Redmond - April 2, 2024

A front-page profile turns San Francisco into a parody and so badly misses the point that it's an embarrassment.

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Arts + Culture

Broadcasting the Summer of Love—and so much more—live from San Francisco

Tim Redmond - January 4, 2024

A new book describes the history of the legendary KSAN, a radio station that promoted, and was part of, a cultural revolution.

Media

Media coverage of reparations hearing runs from bad to worse

Tim Redmond - September 19, 2023

News outlets miss the point, ignore the context, and can't even do basic math.

Music

BFF.fm dials in a decade of indie community—with a big party, of course

Marke B. - August 29, 2023

The online radio station boasts 110 current shows and 10 years of openings SF's ears. Celebrate on Thu/31

Drug policy

The myth of drug cartels is a cover for state-sanctioned violence

Caitlin Donohue - August 11, 2023

Author Oswaldo Zavala says the way we think about Mexican narcos is all wrong

Media

Reparations task force member speaks out—about some very bad press coverage

Tim Redmond - July 21, 2023

Nikcole Cunningham describes how her comments were taken out of context to create a warped and dangerous media narrative.

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Culture

Threads vs. Twitter: Look ma, no Nazis (yet)

Tamara Palmer - July 8, 2023

Instagram’s new app offers a fix for soap opera lovers and the social media-dependent—but watch that privacy

Media

Dianne Feinstein and the ghoulish media

Calvin Welch - May 25, 2023

The longtime press darling is now, it appears, getting manipulated by some of her old friends.

LGBTQ

The New York Times has done serious damage with its coverage of trans people

Tim Redmond - February 19, 2023

There's no such thing as 'objectivity' when it comes to basic human rights.

Media

Conservative YIMBYs just took over SF’s biggest lifestyle site. Its ex-editor tells us what that means

Marke B. - December 12, 2022

GrowSF controls The Bold Italic. Former head Matt Charnock, now of Underscore, dishes on the local media impact

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Media

No, you can’t ‘save’ queer people by bombing them to death

Media Week: Should Kamala Harris do more press interviews?

Media Week: The attacks on San Francisco have begun

Media Week: Joe Biden, the party ‘elite,’ and the reality of big political money

Media Week: Why is Haney’s dubious campaign spending not a bigger story?

Media Week: One crucial (buried) story and two prominent useless ones

Support for public power in SF is growing, even—finally—in the news media

Wildly inaccurate story leads to death threats for activist, 48hills writer

The New York Times lauds Garry Tan—and it’s really pathetic

Broadcasting the Summer of Love—and so much more—live from San Francisco

Media coverage of reparations hearing runs from bad to worse

BFF.fm dials in a decade of indie community—with a big party, of course

The myth of drug cartels is a cover for state-sanctioned violence

Reparations task force member speaks out—about some very bad press coverage

Threads vs. Twitter: Look ma, no Nazis (yet)

Dianne Feinstein and the ghoulish media

The New York Times has done serious damage with its coverage of trans people

Conservative YIMBYs just took over SF’s biggest lifestyle site. Its ex-editor tells us what that means

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