A huge cargo ship bumps into the Bay Bridge and spills 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel–not just oil, but bunker fuel–and this is the Chronicle’s headline? Is it supposed to be a joke?
When I looked at my copy this morning, I originally thought this was a feature recapping some little disaster that I hadn’t heard about. But, no. This is breaking news.
Yeah — this was a beauty. “Hey, I’ve got an idea — lots of people still read the paper because they think it’s more substantial than the crap they get on TV news. So … let’s make the paper just like the TV news!”