By Mondo Times editors
Boulder Colorado USA
Posted on August 30, 2010 at 1:11pm

In California, an Old-Style Print War

-- The New York Times reported on August 29, 2010:

"The office of The Bay Guardian at the bottom of Potrero Hill in San Francisco — the site of one of the last great newspaper wars — was eerily quiet last Thursday morning, with the sounds of a bell at the front desk echoing up into the high ceiling.

Bruce B. Brugmann, the longtime editor-publisher-owner of that reliably leftist weekly, came down and invited me upstairs to his office, a museum to the glories of the printed artifact. Books, many of them about the persistent inadequacies of the capitalist system, formed ad hoc towers, and various kinds of newsprint were arrayed about in a system known only to him.

“I love print. We are doing a lot with the Web, but I’m a print guy,” he said. Just in case I forgot, he later handed me a pressman’s hat that had been made out of, naturally, a page of The Bay Guardian.

Somewhere in this office, there was a copy of a decision from a California state appeals court unanimously upholding a $22 million judgment in a case brought against SF Weekly, a competing alternative weekly owned by Village Voice Media. After a six-week trial in 2008, a jury decided that SF Weekly and its owners had sold ads below cost in an effort to use anticompetitive pricing to put The Bay Guardian out of business."

The full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/business/media/30carr.html

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