Matt Smith hates San FranciscoBy Tim Redmond
That's the only conclusion I could reach after reading this piece of garbage that was until recently sitting high on the front page of the SF Weekly website.
It's fine for journalists to be cynical. It's fine to challenge the conventional wisdom. But all I got from this piece -- and frankly, all I get a lot of the time from Matt Smith -- is how much San Francisco sucks, how lame all of us who love this city are, how stupid local politics is, and how nobody who is a part of the fabric of this town is anything but a witless moron who can't possibly live up to Mr. Smith's standards.
Matt: Why do you live here?
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SF WEEKLY JOURNALISM SCANDAL – MATT SMITH’S FALSE & INACCURATE NEWS REPORTING
It appears that Matt Smith, self proclaimed “lead” reporter for San Francisco alternative free “newspaper”, The SF Weekly, is guilty of a journalism scandal - unfair and inaccurate reporting of a news event – by making substantial reporting and researching errors with the results leading to libelous or defamatory statements. Perhaps Matt Smith’s media scandal was a deliberate attempt to promote himself or a means to further a political goal.
According to Wikipedia, Journalism scandals are high-profile incidents or acts, whether intentional or accidental, that run contrary to the generally accepted ethics and standards of journalism, or otherwise violate the 'ideal' mission of journalism: to report news events and issues accurately and fairly.
SF Newspaper, Beyond Chron reported on Smith’s journalistic reporting and research errors …
“It is no secret that the SF Weekly’s Matt Smith has trouble getting his facts straight …”
Smith was so excited to see a total lobbying amount of $4.8 million on the Clinic’s most recent 990 form that he ignored the fact that this was the maximum amount the group was authorized to spend.
“There is a line item just below that number that asks for the “Total lobbying expenditures.” Had Smith learned to read more carefully, he would have noted that this amount totaled $728.00.
In other words, Smith’s total – adopted without question by a sitting Supervisor – was wrong by over $4 million.
And just to show that Smith’s error may be based more on malice than ineptitude, there is another line that asks about “Grassroots lobbying expenditures.” That amount also totaled $728.00.
And Smith ignored the title of the key section, which reads "Lobbying ceiling amount." To most people, "ceiling" meets the top amount that can be spent, not the actual expenditure.”
Read complete article @ http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5069
Posted by Reader | December 6, 2007 05:08 AM
San FRansico is becoming absolutly the most rediclous places in america i mean they banned plasctic bags to satisfi the eco-freaks they tried to ban guns they have made themselves a sancuary for illegal aleins and have ended up with these same illegal aleins commiting crimes the whole place should be turned into a penal collony just tear down the bridges rip down all the on and off ramps move all our most nasty crinimals there and leave it at that
Posted by Wildbird | October 2, 2008 07:02 AM
I once visited SAN FRANCISCO but never again i,ll never again set foot in that blight on the bay and as far as im concered GAVIN NEWSROM the cities chosen sleezeball he can go JUMP IN A LAKE
Posted by Spurwing Plover | October 15, 2008 01:06 PM
Um, where exactly is this article? I clicked the link but can't see it.
Posted by confused | October 15, 2008 01:29 PM