1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the
country.
2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the
country.
3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run
the country, and who are very good at crossword puzzles.
4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the
country, but don't really understand The New York Times. They do,
however, like their statistics shown in pie charts.
5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind
running the country, if they could find the time, and if they didn't have
to leave Southern California to do it.
6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run
the country and did a poor job of it, thank you very much.
7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure
who's running the country and don't really care as long as they can get
a seat on the train.
8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who is
running the country as long as they do something really scandalous,
preferably while intoxicated, and who like their news as pictures
and/or cartoons.
9. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another
country, but need the baseball scores.
10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure
if there is a country or that anyone is running it; but if so, they
oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders
are handicapped minority feminist atheist dwarfs who also happen to be
illegal aliens from any other country or galaxy, provided of course, that
they are not Republicans.
11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at
the grocery store.
12. The Seattle Times is read by people who have recently caught
a fish and need something in which to wrap it.
Since I'm retired and don't want to run anything guess I'll be satisfied with The Delaware Gazette and news like "Delaware County ranked 2nd happiest place to live" for the time being.
What is a "newspaper"?
Gromaticus, post: 327694, member: 597 wrote: What is a "newspaper"?
What you search through at the local historical society when the county records don't tell you when a road was created or you need the obit of a grantee of 150 years ago that is last recorded owner.
gschrock, post: 327737, member: 556 wrote:
And wrong about the Seattle Times; we actually use it to make little biodegradable artisan origami boxes with which we clean up after our dogs whilst jogging on scenic paths that used to be light rail lines doing Tai Chi sipping Chai Tea in a heated discussions with our high tech industry hipster neighbor about how we should add more light rail, community gardens and dog parks.
I thought you used the P-I for that ...
Oh, never mind - the P-I went online quite some time ago. Sheesh!
gschrock, post: 327737, member: 556 wrote: ......And wrong about the Seattle Times; we actually use it to make little biodegradable artisan origami boxes with which we clean up after our dogs whilst jogging on scenic paths that used to be light rail lines doing Tai Chi sipping Chai Tea in a heated discussions with our high tech industry hipster neighbor about how we should add more light rail, community gardens and dog parks.
I believe he meant ruin; but what do I know......
and
You forgot to add artwork....oh, and protest rallies.
B-)
And FWIW; I'm with the "What's a news paper?" crowd.
Geezer reporting in.
Let's see. Three daily papers. Five weekly papers. One twice-monthly paper.
The daily papers are all in different counties. The five weekly papers encompass five different counties in two different states. Two in one corner of the state, two in the far corner of the same state and one a bit closer in the adjoining state.
Reruns of the Andy Griffith Show come on one local channel at 12:30 p.m. on weekdays. An episode a month or two back centered around a fellow who got off the bus in Mayberry and called everyone by name as he encountered them. No one had a clue who he was. The locals began to get very worried about this total stranger who seemed to know everything about each of them. Eventually, Andy started talking frankly with the fellow and found out what was going on. The stranger had a childhood without much of any family and was moved from place to place many times prior to entering the military. He had no roots, you might say. A military buddy was a Mayberry native. Every week he would get the Mayberry newspaper and read it aloud. The stranger became enamored with the wonderful sounding town with people so different from the wide variety he had met briefly in his younger years. He bought his own subscription and kept reading about Mayberry for many years. Finally, he decided he was going to move to Mayberry.
That show reminded me of a disk jockey out of Kansas City 35 or more years ago who would read excerpts from his old home town weekly paper on the air. I believe it was a small town in the Missouri Ozarks region. People began to tune in every day at that certain time just to hear what was happening in a place they had never been.
11. Is right on.
10. Is absurd. Raise your hand if you remember Herb Caen
Don
Herb Caen was the greatest columnist ever. He was from Sacramento. Don't call it Frisco.
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I sometimes read the Sacramento Bee.
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Don will get the ...
Dave Karoly, post: 327754, member: 94 wrote: Herb Caen was the greatest columnist ever.
My favorite Herb Caen line was from back when the BBC miniseries of Brideshead Revisited was being first shown on PBS Masterpiece Theater; he wrote something along the lines of: "What is this, Roots for preppies?"
Dave Karoly, post: 327754, member: 94 wrote: Herb Caen was the greatest columnist ever. He was from Sacramento. Don't call it Frisco.
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I sometimes read the Sacramento Bee.
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Don will get the ...
Of course I get the ...
Three dot journalism!
Don
Chico grocery stores keep Velveeta in the gourmet cheese section ...
most of them, all of em, many of em...
