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In the Shadow of Silicon Valley: Losing San Francisco

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>>On a TV debate in November between former mayor Gavin Newsom (now governor of California) and Ron DeSantis (far-right governor of Florida and failed candidate for the Republican nomination)

Fair and balanced.

Is there reason to expect the writer must be fair and balanced?

if its political, perhaps this isn’t the appropriate forum?

Like all media nowadays.

Has Gavin Newsom done something equally recent and newsworthy as failing to be nominated by his party? Otherwise... ???

There was the whole "I can get shit off the streets of SF, but only if the president of China visits." That was pretty newsworthy.

The piece is from a literary criticism magazine. It's not journalism in a professional sense, or aspiring to be "fair and balanced"; the byline is huge and the author uses first person throughout. In other words, it's a personal essay. No one expects Lauren Oyler to be "fair and balanced" for example, the opposite is actually the point - they sell their opinion.

I'm assuming she has an editor

It’s as fair and balanced as reality is. Newsom is a moderate governor, DeSantis is (proudly) far-right.

Newsom is as far-left as DeSantis is far-right.

In reality, though, the labels serve no purpose other than for the author indicate which political "tribe" they're in.

Lol no

https://archive.ph/2024.01.31-140452/https://www.lrb.co.uk/t...

> The rationales for the introduction of driverless cars include eliminating human error and allowing people with disabilities to get about without having to rely on other human beings. A more convincing rationale is that the corporations which own them can keep income that would otherwise have gone on drivers’ wages.

That's just your opinion man. It's disgusting how many people get maimed or murdered due to the inattention or impatience of human drivers.

Anyway, multiple things can be true at once. But if humans continue to drive the way they do, they don't deserve their cars.

> That's just your opinion man.

Yeah. A lot of debate can be boiled down to a disagreement about which contributing factor is bigger, based on gut feeling and circumstantial arguments. If you’re lucky… some people won’t accept multiple factors at all.

I’m curious where the “Losing San Francisco” part of the title here comes from. I don’t see it in the version of the story served to me, neither in the headline nor the body of the article.

It's the title in the print version.

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