I hope I am not the only one stunned by the frequently arcane and irrelevant dimensions of the current presidential campaign. I am stunned because neither the candidates, nor the herds of journalists, bit players and commentators directly engaged with the process, seem to be rooted in objective reality.
The San Francisco Chronicle has been featuring lurid tales recently about the city’s escalating crisis with homelessness. And unfortunately, most of the reportage is embarrassingly bad. The biased and distorted nature of the newspaper’s coverage of homelessness results from several factors, not the least of them being its semi-colonial relationship with the city. I might elaborate on the point by pointing out that the Chronicle still functions like a traditional big city, metropolitan daily. In the U.S. context, this means that the paper is primarily oriented toward seeing the city and its best interests from an upper class, white perspective.
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