Opinion

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-

It’s been just about a year since we started gearing up in earnest for the first issue of the new Berkeley Daily Planet. Anniversaries inevitably prompt deep thoughts about the meaning of life. Who are we, why are we here, now, doing this? And increasing ly, in the age of hot media, we think, why a newspaper? My friend the journalism professor, who told me this was going to be a lot of fun, has been here for the week. She taught a class last semester that entailed supervising students putting out one issue of a tabloid, and she is now much more realistic about the amount of work involved. We had dinner with another younger friend who hopes to launch a quarterly magazine, and he’s full of (probably warranted) optimism, typical of the pre-publication mood. -more-