With Drew Schutte, Conde has a smart, web-savvy guy running digital--finally. Let's hope that he, like Hearst, has a war chest. Let's also note that Conde Digital is not at 4TS and that, as surely as the luncheon seating plan, is a measure of status. #media
good riddance i say, save for the lost jobs. the chronicle has been a shitstain of a paper for years, and an oddly conservative one to boot, considering its market.
You know what goes good with Fried Chicken? Orangina. Meanwhile, Blue Ribbon > Popeyes > NYT > KFC. And if we wanna get the South in here, Blue Ribbon > Bojangles > Popeyes, etc.
@Foster Kamer: I would love to follow up on your recommendations, but I’m pretty sure fried food is banned in Southern California (where I happen to live).
@iplaudius: You little Westsider, you! Eastside LA = home of the bacon donut, Roscoe's House of Chicken 'n Waffles, and those delish Korean/Japanese deep-fried curry donuts. I am getting dewy-eyed just typing this.
@Foster Kamer: I've been living in a Canadian chinatown for too long maybe, but I've grown to love fried chicken with young coconut water. It's delicious and sweet and refreshing and caribbean and everything you love with crunchy chicken.
My impression from the email was that the Phil B. blog remains free online, and the Phil B. column is only in the printed paper - but not behind a pay wall online.
So if you want the Phil B. column, you must buy the actual printed paper. But they are not creating an online paywall, etc.
A friend of mine who was doing some IT work for SFGate last month tells me that everyone at Fifth and Mission looks like they're going to get laid off at any minute now.
If Hearst management thinks their columnists merit a pay wall, they are smoking some dank stuff. For that matter, their other content doesn't merit much of a pay wall, either.
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They aren't savvy enough at SFGate to know about Google cache?
Why not just leave it out there as a teaser and announce that follow-up would be behind the pay wall?
Or maybe it was the single comment that got through that got someones attention:
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I'm sorry, did I read Pelose, Feinstein and Boxer were leaders? Of the communist party?"
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So if you want the Phil B. column, you must buy the actual printed paper. But they are not creating an online paywall, etc.
It's a print paywall! The next big thing!
Actually enjoy sfgate.com, and good luck to them.
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If Hearst management thinks their columnists merit a pay wall, they are smoking some dank stuff. For that matter, their other content doesn't merit much of a pay wall, either.
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Coming soon on MSNBC: The Timex Countdown Hour. Hardball, courtesy of Major League Baseball.
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