A Bad Week for the ChronicleRandy Shawbyline‚ Feb. 24‚ 2006It’s not easy to have two false or misleading front page stories in the same week, but there is no underestimating the San Francisco Chronicle. On Tuesday, reporter and seemingly fulltime Schwarzenegger flak Carla Marinucci told readers that the Governor had “regained the political footing that led him to his 2003 recall election victory.” On Thursday, the Chronicle front page featured an article on Hope VI, which it called an “urban housing success story.” In both cases, the reporters stories were not merely wrong, but way, way wrong, and were so misleading as to constitute “disinformation.” Marinucci’s February 21 article, “Momentum shifts back to governor” continued the Chronicle’s aggressive post- November election rebuilding of the Schwarzenegger legend. Since that time I have cited numerous articles reflecting the paper’s extreme pro-Arnold bias, and it appears that the worst misrepresentations of reality are authored by Marinucci. |