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San Francisco Bay Guardian: The Case Against the Media Grab (7/19/06)
An editorial calls for "three cheers for [Clint] Reilly," the community figure whose 2000 lawsuit resulted in the San Francisco Examiner's publisher testifying that "he had offered to give then-mayor Willie Brown more favorable editorial coverage if Brown would help squelch a Justice Department investigation into an Examiner-Chronicle financial deal." A newer proposed merger "would leave the [San Francisco] Chronicle as the only real competitor" against Dean Singleton's monopolistic Bay Area media holdings, "but Hearst, which now owns the Chronicle, is in the deal too, helping finance some of Singleton's out-of-state purchases." Reilly's response with a new antitrust suit is appreciated by the Bay Guardian, which points out that "somebody had to question this massive media scandal—and so far, there's no sign that the government is going to."
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