If our articles are written clearly and articulately, and the public senses there's a truth to it, it becomes fact. Much of Street Sheet 's credibility stems from the guiding editorial hand of Editor Lydia Ely, who has provided a consistent shape and tone to the paper for many years now. And we check everything out in depth, so over time you get a reputation for being accurate. Probably every activist in every movement knows the frustration of doing painstaking work and pulling off a successful protest addressing an undeniably important social issue, only to have it ignored by the establishment press in an apparent attempt to suppress the message. Boden describes the homeless press as one antidote to the news management and outright censorship of the corporate media.
Papers now are there to sell more issues to make more money to then buy TV and radio stations.
A lot of papers have become conglomerates. Conglomerates aren't going to hold the officials accountable who give them tax write-offs. And the scary part is that journalists seem to have bought it. Mainstream journalism has become a sales entity. There're certainly more pages devoted to advertising than to investigative journalism in the Chronicle .