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Editorial: True Self Defense

Becky O'Malley
Friday March 26, 2004

Our opinion pages have received a number of letters regarding Israel’s recent assassination of a Hamas leader. They’re from all over Northern California, written in a variety of styles by obviously concerned citizens, but they have a common outline and theme: what’s wrong with assassination in self-defense? Since most of the writers don’t seem to be Daily Planet readers, we’ve sent this stock response: -more-


Editorial: Objecting to “Objectivity”

Becky O'Malley
Tuesday March 23, 2004

San Francisco Chronicle Editor Phil Bronstein has added another corollary to the paper’s Greater Eunuch theory of press objectivity by taking two staffers who had the nerve to marry one another off the part of their city hall beat which involved reporting on same-sex marriage. And yes, they were same-sex, in case you couldn’t guess. -more-


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