I received this from a friend:
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 far superior 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’s running the country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.
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 there is a country or that anyone is running it; but if someone is, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped, minority, feminist, atheists, provided of course, that they are not Republicans.
11. The St. Petersburg Times is read by people who have recently caught a fish and need something in which to wrap it.
I read MAD MAGAZINE, which is read by those people who A) Don’t care who’s running the country and B) Are having all the fun that the folks reading those other newspapers aren’t.
Comment by Bob Cleveland — October 11, 2007 @ 10:33 am
I read ie:missional.
Comment by Kevin Bussey — October 11, 2007 @ 11:55 am
I’m hurt, shocked, and dismayed that the Copper Era wasn’t included in your list. Must be an oversight…..
Comment by Rodney McCarty — October 11, 2007 @ 12:34 pm
I live north of Tampa and St. Petersburg and I can verify that the only thing worth reading in the St. Pete Times is the Sports section. It does make a good fish wrap for sure- or bird cage liner.
Comment by Pregador27 — October 12, 2007 @ 6:05 am
So, if I read BBC on-line, listen to npr, and watch the Colbert Report does that just make me a heretic? :) I’ve never had a subscription to a newspaper. BBC is for world news, npr is for in-depth stories and interviews, and Colbert is brilliant satire. Perhaps I’m just in the group that is making newspapers lose revenue…
Comment by Emily Hunter McGowin — October 13, 2007 @ 9:35 am
Emily,
The first step is admitting you have a problem.
Comment by chuck bryce — October 14, 2007 @ 3:03 pm
I’ll be fishing in the Bay on Saturday when the tide rolls in. I’ll be sure to have my Times with me to wrap up my red fish! Hopefully there won’t be any newspaper left to read after fishing.
Comment by pbarrett — October 25, 2007 @ 11:06 pm