File #: 991642    Version: 1 Name: Sale of Chronicle
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
Introduced: 8/23/1999 In control: Board of Supervisors
On agenda: Final action: 9/3/1999
Enactment date: Enactment #: 824-99
Title: Resolution urging the Justice Department to closely scrutinize the merger for anti-competitive effects and further urging the Justice Department to ensure that any sale of the Examiner be premised upon the buyer providing competitive daily city and regional circulation and further urging that Hearst Corporation comply with the job rights, classifications, contracts, and protections of all Chronicle and Examiner employees and further urging the Hearst Corporation give voice to San Francisco's diverse, vibrant, highly educated and civically and community-engaged population in ways comparable to that afforded the city by the two newspapers and further urging the Justice Department to hold public hearings in San Francisco on the impact of the merger.
Sponsors: Michael Yaki, Sue Bierman
Attachments: 1. Leg_Final
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