I think just possibly, the San Francisco Chronicle qualifies as the most trivial and useless newspaper in the USA. Wire service cop is copiously and badly re-written to cover stories emanating from the State Capital!
There is no discernible editorial page let alone any local or syndicated columnists. The whole paper is about as locally oriented as your average Starbucks.
Imagine "USA Today" with a prefrontal lobotomy and you'll have the Chronicle's style down pat. Opinions of any kind are non-existent which suits the whole "offend no one, inform none" editorial line. In five days of relentless tourism from the Haight to the Fish Pier I never caught a single native San Franciscan actually reading the damn thing.
San Francisco is a one newspaper town and it shows....the Chronicle is naught but an overgrown Shopper.
One hopes there is an active blogging community out there, otherwise how exactly the natives inform themselves on a daily basis remains a frightening mystery.
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