San Antonio Express-News, P.O. Box 2171, San Antonio TX 78297,
Tel: 210-225-7411, Fax: 210-351-7372.
For decades, San Antonio's two newspapers battled it out. The San
Antonio Light was a Hearst paper, while the Express-News was eventually
owned by Rupert Murdoch, who has a reputation for low quality. But it's all
relative when the competition is the Hearst Corporation; in recent years,
the Express-News was considered better than the Light. Hearst then purchased
the Express-News from Murdoch and in early 1993 closed down the Light. Now
Hearst has a monopoly, and no longer worries about quality at all. By the
end of 1993, the Express-News would use an occasional piece from a wire
service just to fill the space between ads -- and this at time when San
Antonio, a city of one million with clean air and water, has pretensions of
of becoming a serious player through anticipated NAFTA perks.
This paper is so bad that they try to salvage credibility by publishing
letters to the editor complaining that they are "an embarrassment to our
city" (1993-12-12). We try not to read it, but once in a great while an ad
gets canceled and something significant from a service slips by the editors,
who apparently sign their names with happy faces. When that happens, it's
easier for us to cite the Express-News as a source than to track down the
particulars for the original citation.
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