Oh the indignity

I was relieved that the stupid whales made it out to sea so that I'd no longer have to endure the hourly updates on the Chronicle's website, but they're finding extra stories to milk it.

I have to fully reverse the position I made on this blog earlier that the Chron should just stop worry about news and focus on features to save money, because as they continue to up the fluff I am getting increasingly nauseated with features on sick teenagers and animals. I'm starting to want some good old fashioned terrorism to ground me in reality.

My least favorite reporting that the Chron loves is reporting on their own reporting, and today there was a doozy! Back in March, they did a feature on cyber bullying. Then last week they ran another feature on how because of their feature, people were writing to the bullied girl to comfort her. Then today they ran a third feature on how since their last feature 1,000 more people wrote emails to the bullied girl in question.

My writing about cocktails for the paper is starting to look like actual news in comparison.