Comments on: Merger announced: Gray Lady in red

By: gcotharn

gcotharn — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:12:37 +0000

Just… how to delicately put this… maybe you should recheck your sources vis a vis “merger”. The National Enquirer is a profitable venture. I suspect hostile takeover.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:27:13 +0000

gcotharn: No, the Times will give something to the Enquirer, as well. As Katherine Hepburn once said about Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, "He gives her class, she gives him sex appeal."

By: SC&A

SC&A — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:46:01 +0000

Funny!

Just what the doctor ordered on this dark dreary day.

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

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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: 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: 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: gcotharn

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

Ike, this is for you:

Heh. Good ones!

By: Cappy

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

Can the Enquirer survive the subsequent loss of credibility?

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: 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: 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: 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.