John Wagner makes an interesting point about the Chronicle:
Just about every weekend, you can find an obvious representation of the Houston Chronicle’s “inside-the-loop” bias.
It works like this: Anything downtown-related is cool; anything outside the Loop (except for the people who buy newspapers) is lame.
His entire post is here.
I’m an inside-the-loopster myself, and that may color my own perspective, but I expect the city’s only major daily to focus on the city’s core rather than suburbs (although as Wagner correctly points out in his comments, the This Week sections do provide good neighborhood coverage), so I’m not sure that I would call the newspaper anti-suburban simply on the basis of focus alone. But I think Wagner’s suggesting something more along the lines of anti-suburban values, a case that could probably be made about the editorial page at the least.
What do you think? Feel free to join the blogversation at Wagner’s place or in our forum.
