I worked for Gannett for 23 years, from 1976 until 1999, when the sale of The San Bernardino Sun (by Gannett, to Dean Singleton’s MediaNews) was completed. Looking back, I recall the Gannett Era as a time of something like opulence. Real money spent on real projects and real journalists. But that could be a […]

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Weird experience, today. I went “home” to the building where I spent 29 years as a working professional. To the 399 North D Street offices of the San Bernardino Sun. The Sun abandoned the site in October of 2005. And sold the whole-city-block property to a Korean-born businessman named Harry Hwang. The newspaper and its […]

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One of the weirder and, turns out, more cynical non-stories of the NBA playoffs is the hoo-ha surrounding the three-pointer Sasha Vujacic took — and made — in the last second of the Lakers’ 100-92 victory over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 5 on Thursday. Media people are still talking about it a day […]

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