Who Reads What Papers?

Skyhook · 01-16-2006, 05:39

Subject: who reads which papers
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> Reading is fundamental...
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> 1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.
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> 2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the
> country.
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> 3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the
> country and who are very good at crossword puzzles.
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> 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.
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> 5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running
> the country -- if they weren't on a freeway, or playing beach-ball, or
> at a botox appointment or an audition -- and if they didn't have to
> leave Southern California to do it.
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> 6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the
> country and did a far superior job of it, thank you very much.
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> 7. The New York Daily News is read by people who ar! en't too sure
> who's running the country and don't really care as long as they can
> get a seat on the train.
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> 8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who's running
> the country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably
> while intoxicated.
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> 9. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country
> but need the baseball scores.
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> 10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure
> 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.
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> 11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the
> grocery store.
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> 12. Not a single one of these are read by the folks who are currently
> running the country into the ground.

My snooty brother-in-law reads the NYTimes... hee, hee.

Aquanewt · 01-16-2006, 06:58

Then there is the Baltimore Sun, written by some guy who doesn't get any credit for his work that appears under another's by-line.

Skyhook · 01-16-2006, 10:07

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Originally posted by Aquanewt
Then there is the Baltimore Sun, written by some guy who doesn't get any credit for his work that appears under another's by-line.

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DTQ · 01-16-2006, 16:43

I read The Weekly World News.

http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/

Aquanewt · 01-16-2006, 17:42

The Baltimore Sun is a Hearst newspaper that is losing more of it's local writers and recently had to "release" a columnist who forgot to "attribute" his sources and had a tendency to lift entire sections out of others work. In any other medium it would be called plagerism (sp?) , but when a newspaper man does it and the free weekly is the only competition, it kind of gets ignored.

Skyhook · 01-17-2006, 04:57

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Originally posted by Aquanewt
The Baltimore Sun is a Hearst newspaper that is losing more of it's local writers and recently had to "release" a columnist who forgot to "attribute" his sources and had a tendency to lift entire sections out of others work. In any other medium it would be called plagerism (sp?) , but when a newspaper man does it and the free weekly is the only competition, it kind of gets ignored.

Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification..
It seems the 'industry' we're looking over, here, has an entire set of its own definitions. Especially when it comes to truth.