Funny what happens when an innocuous little triple-shooting at a local waterfront restaurant brings out the best, worst and curious in Bay Area media.
First off, the worst AND curious: the shooting happened at 10: 30 Saturday night. All the local TV stations and both KGO and KCBS radio mentioned the Sinbad's shooting on their top/bottom hour updates; amazingly enough, in a case of "someone clearly screwed up", SFGate missed the story entirely and ran it as a "breaking news" entry at 3: 46 PM Sunday. That's right, a mere 17 hours after the initial shooting. Looks as if a holiday staff was manning the gate.
On the other hand, props to Brock Keeling at SFist, who was first on the web; Keeling and crew ran it 10 the very next morning and even managed to get a quote from a Sinbad's employee. (Disclaimer: The SFist link on this site is NOT paid for; its run as a local news url for my legion of minions, so, no, there is no conflicto of interesto.)
The curious? The local media going ga-ga over the fact that there, WTF!!?, a shooting on the SF waterfront? As if that never happens in the city, and as if violence never occurs in the 415. Yeah, just check out nearby North Beach on the weekends> Have you ever seen the spate of yellow police tape lately? There's been several shootings and multiple homicides near the Broadway/Columbus corridor; so much, in fact, that a good many peeps have begun cancelling their dinner plans in that neck of the woods. Ask the locals.
And the Saturday night shootings provided the inevitable avalanche of racist "comments" on SFGate. "'They, (the shooter and victims) must have been from Oakland.'" was the common theme on the thread. Shocking.
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