Not only does the Examiner publish data, in the form of tables, but it has well written humorous columns.
Data is anathema to the failing
Chronicle, just as are words of more than two syllables. The
Examiner published a table (not in the online article) that shows
Japanese is the language of the most non-English speaking tourists to
San Francisco.
We must have fried donuts running the Tourist Bureau and the Chamber of Commerce. I already know that the Mayor and Supervisors have holes in their heads big enough for the fog to drift through. There is not a single sign in Japanese in Union Square, Fisherman's Wharf or near the cable cars.
The only greater shorted sightedness, along these lines, that I've ever seen is the Paul Allen museum of rock in Seattle. Not a single sign in Japanese or German for the two biggest tourist groups. Not even headsets in Japanese or German.
The Examiner has a great writer with no
byline doing a weekend feature called the Police Blotter ( last week and the week before). Sheer
humor. Most crime is stupid and should be understood as such. But
we try to believe that taking crime seriously is more effective than
treating criminals as pathetic fools.
Criminals are able to see themselves as heroic thanks to the press, rather than stupid, which they usually are.
My guess is that the Police Blotter humor column will be obliterated by tried and true Puritanism. Reminds me of the time a great humorist, Howard Nemerofsky, was put on the S.F. School Board. After a few months of making great improv comments and getting sour responses from everyone, Howard quit. Education is too serious for a touch of humanity.