David Carr Visits With Brugmann
august 30, 2010 03:05 pm
In his
New York Times column, "The Media Equation," David Carr
pays a visit to the
San Francisco Bay Guardian's Bruce Brugmann, whose office is described as "a museum to the glories of the printed artifact."
The piece rehashes many of the familiar plot lines in the everlasting
SFBG / SF Weekly court battle, but also contains some good nuggets such as the fact that Brugmann doesn't expect to ever receive the full settlement amount and isn't keeping track of the accumulated legal costs:
“I don’t think we have ever totaled it up because it made us feel bad when we looked.”
The article also has VVM Executive Editor Michael Lacey quoted as saying that
SF Weekly will appeal to the California Supreme Court, a fact that AAN has independently confirmed with VVM's Andy Van De Voorde.
In one telling line, Carr writes, "So far, the only thing that
The Bay Guardian has to show for the litigation is a lot of legal bills and two old delivery vans from the
SF Weekly that it managed to repossess."