Comments on: Merger announced: Gray Lady in red

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:13:35 +0000

Alex, if you want a morning paper why not the Wall Street Journal? They have home delivery now you know.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:01:52 +0000

P.S. When mentioning newspaper names created by mergers, how could you have omitted the best example: The Frostbite Falls [MN] Picayune-Intelligence?

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:00:33 +0000

Well, I get the Times, but that’s because I like a morning paper and the alternative here in the Detroit Free Press, a gazette for which “relentlessly trivial” overstates its seriousness. Besides, the Times has a good crossword.

But yes, it’s hard to know why they have a separate “Style” section these days when most of the paper seems to be a style section.

By: J. Peden

J. Peden — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:09:55 +0000

“My God…. This isn’t a newspaper, it’s a cure for white-guilt! You can feel good about living lavishly as long as you feel bad for the people in these photos.”

Brilliant, Gray!

[In fact that made me feel so good, I’m going right out to get something from WalMart.]

By: Cappy

Cappy — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:59:56 +0000

Can the Enquirer survive the subsequent loss of credibility?

By: gcotharn

gcotharn — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:48:54 +0000

Ike, this is for you:

Heh. Good ones!

By: Ike

Ike — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:37:53 +0000

DAMMIT!

The first two comments that came to my head were:

1) The Enquirer will lose respectability, must be a hostile takeover

– and –

2) “Enquirer now with lower standards — women and minorities in checkout line hardest hit”

You people are FAST.

By: driver

driver — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:07:40 +0000

Great comment, Gray,
As a famous person once said:
NY Times Headline: “GOD SAYS WORLD TO END TOMORROW—Women and minorities hardest hit.”

By: Gray

Gray — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:58:39 +0000

I happened to read a NY Times recently out of curiousity.

I noticed something odd:

The number of pictures of downtrodden, starving, lame or wounded minorities on a page is directly proportional to the cost of the jewelry advertised on the page!

See for yourself!

That’s when I realized:

“My God…. This isn’t a newspaper, it’s a cure for white-guilt! You can feel good about living lavishly as long as you feel bad for the people in these photos.”

In that, the NY Times performes a very real service; its readers are addicted to the good feeling of guilt relief it gives them. It will never die.

By: The New York Times’ Bill Keller…Is he actually Wile E. Coyote? at Amused Cynic

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:10:49 +0000

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