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The San Francisco Independent was a free newspaper distributed several times per week in San Francisco, California and owned by the Pan Asia Venture Capital Corp., which also owned the AsianWeek newspaper. The newspaper began as the Lake Merced Independent before being purchased in 1987 by John Fang, who had been a Chinese journalist in pre-Communist China before moving to California where he ran a printing business. Fang gave the newspaper to his 24-year-old son Ted Fang as birthday present. When the established neighborhood newspaper San Francisco Progress folded, Fang gained advertiser and increased circulation, becoming a city-wide newspaper.〔Carlsen, William; Holding, Reynolds. (April 27, 2000). (How Politics Tangled Up S.F. Newspaper Deals. ) San Francisco Chronicle. Hearst Publications. Retrieved December 23, 2011.〕 The Independent, widely regarded as a mouthpiece for the political views of the Fang family, focused primarily on neighborhood news.〔Said, Carolyn; Curiel, Jonathan. (March 18, 2000). (Analysts say S.F. is better served with 2 daily papers -- but have few words of praise for the Independent. ) San Francisco Chronicle, Hearst Publications. 2011. Retrieved December 23, 2011.〕 The newspaper declared in a full-page "open letter to the readers of the Independent" in 2000, "The Independent believes in advocacy journalism." The Independent received a significant source of revenue from legal notices, which brought in an estimated $917,670 per year.〔Fost, Dan. (March 1, 2001). (Examiner Struggles to Find Its Voice. ) San Francisco Chronicle. Hearst Publications. Retrieved December 23, 2011.〕 As of December, 1998 the Independent was distributed four times per week.〔Raine, George. (December 25, 1998.) (News Rack Attack ). San Francisco Chronicle. Hearst Publications. Retrieved December 23, 2011.〕 As of 2000, it was distributed three times. As of March, 2001, the Independent had ceased delivering to homes on Saturdays, being distributed only at newsstands and as an insert into the San Francisco Examiner.〔 The newspaper has since stopped publication. ==Purchase of San Francisco Examiner== In covering the sale of the Examiner to the Fang family, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Carolyn Said conducted an informal poll of people in San Francisco's Financial District and revealed complete dismissal of the Independent. Said Brian Antonio, a clerk at the Pacific Stock Exchange of the Independent: "Oh, that's the one nobody reads. That's the one that goes right in the recycling bin." The Fang family heavily protested the proposed purchase by Hearst, owner of the San Francisco Examiner, of the San Francisco Chronicle, saying it would hurt the Independent.〔Rosenfeld, Seth. (May 16, 2000.) (Fang's backstage moves for Examiner ). San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved December 23, 2011.〕 Eventually, the Examiner was sold to the Independent by Hearst to avoid anti-trust litigation. The deal led to Ted Fang receiving a salary of $500,000 per year, four times his salary at the Independent. In addition, under the terms of the deal, the Fang family could pocket half of every dollar over $15 million of the $25 million subsidy they received from Hearst. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「San Francisco Independent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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