AAN News » Industry News
   

The Stranger Looks at 'The Crazy Alt-Weekly War in San Francisco'

By AAN Staff
march 17, 2010  08:06 pm
The Stranger Looks at 'The Crazy Alt-Weekly War in San Francisco'
The legal battle between the San Francisco Bay Guardian and the SF Weekly is "a war straight out of the last century in its ruthlessness and its destructive potential," writes The Stranger's Eli Sanders in a 10,000-plus word cover story this week. The piece covers a lot of ground, but frames the battle as one between two alt-titans: Bay Guardian publisher Bruce Brugmann and Village Voice Media executive editor Michael Lacey. "These two men have hated each other for decades," Sanders writes, "but with increasing venom since 1995, when Lacey showed up in San Francisco in cowboy boots to announce that he and his partners had just purchased the tiny SF Weekly and planned to make a huge success of it."
View full article at The Stranger
Tags: , , , , ,