From the Comical to the Real Estatesman, establishment media push the "Growth Lobby" agenda.

The New Boss/Old Boss scenario played out in the coverage of last week’s important debate held at Palmer Auditorium on the City’s plan to build the $1 billion Water Treatment Plant #4, ratepayers be damned.

When big news stories broke in the good old days, Austin citizens relied on their one daily paper to get the details.  Along came the Austin Chronicle as the new boss, the progressive alternative to challenge the old boss American-Statesman; a rivalry good for coverage of community issues.  But a while back, the new boss Austin Chronicle (despite the good sensibilities of its publisher Nick Barbaro) decided to be damn nearly the same as the old boss Austin American-Statesman, and kowtow to the real estate growth lobby.  Which maybe explains why some people call them the "Comical” and the “Real Estatesman.”