Not sure how facetious Ted Rall is this week

IF, IF, you’re not being 100 percent facetious in this column, Ted, and just partially facetious instead, I disagree with you on a couple of things:

1. As a newspaper editor myself, my general take is that small town rural papers are the most likely to survive, not a “leaner, meaner, SF Chron” (or Houston Chron, for that matter, since Hearst owns both). I expect the entire McClatchy chain to go belly-up. And, that’s going to further depress wages at alt-weeklies, smaller papers, etc.
The small town papers that are generally more healthy are out in the conservative heartland. Wunderbar.

2. A newly empowered big-paper media, with a more open FOIA, won’t necessarily go after Bush. And, as a writer about “presidentialism” yourself, you know Obama won’t.

Anyway, read for yourself, and make your own facetiousness quotient estimates.