SF Weekly Launches New Attack on Alternative PressRandy Shawbyline‚ Sep. 29‚ 2008The 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. |