Sacramento Bee's coverage of Jerry Brown's "Latino rally" is pathetic

I know the Bee has had a lot of layoffs and problems, but the Bee's coverage of yesterday's rally at Laney College was pitiful.  Below is the article on the rally that appeared in today's Sacramento Bee.

Not mentioned: the people on stage with Brown were career politicians. Even more newsworthy: the people on stage with Brown almost outnumbered everybody else.

The video below tells the real story. At about 15 seconds the video pans to the crowd and you can see just a handful of reporters and curious onlookers bothered to show up.



Congrats to reporter Carla Marinucci for getting the real story. Via SF Politics blog   Her colleague Joe Garofoli's piece on the rally noted there were "only a couple dozen people" there to see it.

Finally!... a mainstream reporter notes Jerry Brown's "teabagger" slur

The San Francisco Chronicle's Joe Garofoli is apparently the first MSM reporter to note Jerry Brown's teabagger slur on Hardball.

... Brown also dropped a reference to "tea baggers" on "Hardball" in reference to Tea Partiers.

Uh-oh. TPers find that term offensive, and for those of you wondering why, look here to find out. It ain't about the Lipton.

"Team" Brown spokesperson Sterling Clifford told us: "No offense was intended."

I don't believe Clifford Sterling's claim that no offense was intended.  You can't view the comments section in most American newspapers - much less lefty sites like KOS and the Huffington Post -- without seeing the Teabagger slur over and over.  Lefties who use this slur know what they are doing.

I haven't found any report on Brown's slur in the Sacramento Bee, the LA Times, the San Diego Union, or any paper besides the SF Chronicle.