"Because I am most decidedly not a politician, I am best qualified for political office," says John Sugg, senior editor, Creative Loafing Atlanta, in announcing his candidacy for the 7th Congressional District. Sugg, who is running a write-in campaign as a Whig, says fellow journalists shouldn't question his political activism. "Your bosses have neutered real journalism by creating the cult of objectivity -- passionless journalism that is beholden to the status quo." Sugg is challenging "ho-hum" Democrat Mike Berlon and John Linder, "a water-carrier for the most corrupt elements of corporate America," he writes in his "Fishwrapper" column.
The San Francisco Bay Guardian wrote its first article about PG&E's monopoly on power in the Bay area in 1969, not long after the paper was founded. The San Francisco Chronicle looks back on this "lone, frequently bombastic crusade to make the city establish the municipal power utility Congress intended" and how the daily papers in San Francisco have opposed public power. The article quotes Stephen Buel, editor of the East Bay Express, as saying, "The sad fact is that a lot of the Bay Guardian's criticisms of PG&E are very apt, but the way in which the paper hammers home its message makes it get lost because it is so mind-numbingly repetitive."
While Mickey Mouse entertains diners at a Disneyland hotel restaurant, rats may be wreaking havoc in the kitchen. OC Weekly's Nick Schou talks to employees, some of whom have filed claims against the hotel for a variety of illnesses they say are connected to filthy kitchens -- live rats, rat droppings, toxic molds and backed up drains. "When they started all this expansion at Disneyland, it brought us all the rats," one former employee tells Schou. "There were also roaches and worms."
LA Weekly's Brendan Bernhard interviews a naked Benedikt Taschen, the king of the coffee table art book, as he lies flat on his back at an LA spa."Taschen is a postmodern tycoon for the 21st century, a brash and stylish entrepreneur who has turned the world of illustrated-book publishing upside down. ... The jet-setting 41-year-old German publisher produces exquisite coffee-table books that range in subject matter from the complete etchings of 18th-century Italian engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi to the pornographic digital diaries of 21st-century Internet exhibitionist Natacha Merritt."
Taking a page from Gannett, the Chicago Tribune is seriously considering launching a five-day-a-week tabloid aimed at the elusive 18- to 34-year-old urban reader, the Tribune's Jim Kirk reports. "The new Tribune paper would be aimed at the same demographic that has made the city's free alternative papers, such as the Reader and New City, successful," Kirk writes. Gannett is launching "alternative" weeklies in target markets.
For Sept. 11 week, Seattle Weekly looks not to the past but to the future and the prospect of "a nightmare war in Iraq," says Editor Knute Berger. The Weekly's anti-War issue includes a lead essay by Philip Gold, a conservative Marine defense analyst, and articles on the environmental and political implications of an Iraq War.
One phrase that has not been synonymous with Sept 11 is "civil liberty." The one-year anniversary not only marks a significant day in history but also the continuation of an assault on the Bill of Rights. "The U.S. Department of Justice continues to wage its own war to keep Americans in the dark about its vast incursions into their civil liberties — including secret arrests and deportations, lowered barriers to covert searches, and a 'don’t ask, won’t tell' attitude toward public scrutiny," Richard Byrne writes in the Boston Phoenix.
Greek shipping heir Taki Theodoracapolus, who writes Taki's Top Drawer for New York Press, is providing the financial backing for The American Conservative, a new magazine platform for Pat Buchanan's species of conservatism. The new magazine will be printed bi-weekly on newsprint, in a format similar to The Nation, and mailed to likely subscribers.
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