SacBee Pulitzer Shoulda Gone to PR Flack

It's always considered fashionable to put down your local newspaper even when they put out a generally decent product. A lot of people I work with now love to hate the S.F. Chronicle even though it's certainly a step beyond the Tulsa World.

When I was in Sacramento, I thought the Bee did a reasonable job for living in a one newspaper town. So it was kind of nice recently to hear they had won a Pulitzer for a series of pieces on draining the Hetch-Hetchy valley in Yosemite.

Now one of the two "alternative" newspapers in San Francisco, the S.F. Weekly is taking a huge swipe at the Bee, the Pulitzer Committee, and the Hetch-Hetchy series saying the real prize should have gone to the P.R. agent who pimped the story the whole way.