Finally, he also probably knew that were he to be instrumental in a deal that would get the paper to Black ownership, that if that paper were to be crushed, as the Chronicle will do Fang's Examiner , that the Black community would not stand idly by and allow that to happen or to go unnoticed. The social psychology of Black Americans is quite different from that of Asian Americans. Whereas Fang will for three years, at the most, dangle in the wind with his Examiner , he will do it quietly and without a word of blame, and possibly without an understanding of the dynamics arrayed against him. In a real sense, Ted Fang received his hail to the chief serenade, but he is in an unenviable position. The Chronicle will aid him in being gone.
Publishing is about market share and that is about money .
The Hearst Corporation's papers are not in the business to lose money but to make it. And to make money, they will drive the Examine r out of San Francisco as a real newspaper that could be competitive. We will stand by to observe the theater of the Examiner's demise.