Word: bayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fortuna Bay--Inn Square...
...Back Bay Bores--trombone choir, Arlington St. Church, Boston...
...generation now moving into its 30s. At Denver's Straight Creek Journal and Seattle's Weekly, the average reader's age is 35. "Politics doesn't sell on the front page since Viet Nam," says Bruce Brugmann, 43, editor and publisher of the San Francisco Bay Guardian (circ. 35,000). "We put politics on the front page, but we have to highlight it with where to find the best sandwich...
...alternatives have always tried to cover the news in a more analytical way than the conventional press. Their editors see themselves as subjective, irreverent and at odds with the local power structure. The Bay Guardian, for instance, rails regularly at Pacific Gas and Electric, the two San Francisco dailies, the " Mannattanization" of the city's architecture, the Chamber of Commerce and anything else it considers high or mighty. The alternatives also like to feature unknown writers and publish long, idiosyncratic articles. The Chicago Reader once printed a 19,000-word piece on beekeeping...
...doubted that alternatives had drifted dangerously far from their original purpose, that perhaps they were betting too heavily on special sections and entertainment guides and not enough on investigative reporting and all-round hell raising. "You have to create a product that no one else can duplicate," warned the Bay Guardian 's Brugmann. "If you're sitting on your ass, thinking that you can make it on listings or a couple of entertainment articles, you're going to be out of business...