By Elmano Gonsalves San Francisco Chronicle columnist Chip Johnson OAKLAND | OPINION | Chip Johnson, it seems that your on-going vendetta against Jean Quan and the city of Oakland continues unabated. The San Francisco-centric and slanted media goes after Oakland… Read More ›
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A Double Standard When it Comes to Crime Stories in Oakland
A Shipping crane near Jack London Square in Oakland OAKLAND | MEDIA | Crime is down dramatically in Oakland this year, and yet you’d never know it by reading the daily newspapers or watching TV news. Moreover, news reports often portray… Read More ›
Oakland Local, East Bay Citizen To Collaborate, Share Reporting
Oakland Local and The East Bay Citizen, two online news and community media sites focusing on the East Bay, are going to be working together on original reporting and multimedia stories. Oakland Local, a nonprofit news and community media site,… Read More ›
The Media’s Effort To Turn Stark’s Plain-Spoken Bluntness Into A Negative
ELECTION’S 12//CONGRESS 15/ANALYSIS | Rep. Pete Stark sat firmly in his seat at Hayward’s City Hall last April as the audience began ambling out the room following the first forum with his young Democratic challenger, Eric Swalwell. Earlier in the hour-long… Read More ›
Daily Review Shoots Back At Quirk’s Dig Over Lack Of Coverage
COUNCILMAN: DON’T WAIT FOR THE DAILY REVIEW TO INFORM YOUBy Steven Tavares Quirk is a likely candidate for assembly in 2012 As reported last week in The Citizen, Hayward Councilman Bill Quirk took a sharp jab at the lack of local… Read More ›
Putting Out The Fire With Gasoline
Sarah Palin and rightwing pundits like Glenn Beck have faced renewed scrutiny after the shootings in Arizona. LEFTY MEDIA, POLITICIANS CONTINUE THE DOUBLE STANDARDBy Nicholas E. Terry Soon after the unfortunate attacks in Tucson this weekend, the founder of The… Read More ›
MediaNews Hastening Fall from Newspaper to Fish Wrap
OWNER OF BAY AREA NEWS GROUP TAKES STAND AGAINST THOSE HELPING THEIR BUSINESS Dean Singleton dictates what most of the East Bay reads everyday. At least, those few who still subscribe to the rapidly shrinking Daily Review, Contra Costa Times, Oakland… Read More ›
Bay Area Newspaper Apocalypse is Upon Us
THOSE ‘TOO BIG TO SUCCEED’ WILL NOT BE MISSED The Daily Review, the newspaper once published by Floyd Sparks to do battle with the titans of East Bay journalism, is dead. The cause of death was not only a poor… Read More ›
The Power of the Well-Written Press Release…
….OR THE TRAGEDY OF A BARREN MEDIA LANDSCAPEWhen the Alameda County Medical Center sent a press release late Wednesday afternoon, it attained the status of gospel most students of public relations dream about. Its talking points dominated the few articles… Read More ›
San Leandro’s Donaire Fights for the Title
The Citizen opens its local weekend sports coverage with coverage of the San Leandro’s Nonito Donaire as he fights Rafael Concepcion for the WBA Interim World Super Flyweight Title in Las Vegas. As with other local stories the local mainstream… Read More ›
Only one daily news outlet covering San Leandro
REVIEW’S BEAT WRITER RETIRES; NO REPLACEMENT NAMEDStarting today, only one local news outlet is covering the city of San Leandro on a daily basis. The Daily Review’s long time scribe Karen Holzmeister ended 36 years of journalism last Friday and… Read More ›
