Stop me if you've read this one
In the e-mail inbox today:
Subject: Newspaper Readership
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 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 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.
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Comments (11)
The Oregonian is read by people who think they live in another country but, in fact, just live in a few large cities in Oregon whose "leaders" are actually from another planet.
Posted by notamouse | October 10, 2006 3:47 PM
The O is an underground newspaper. No one above ground ever reads it.
Posted by Jack Bog | October 10, 2006 3:49 PM
The O is best left unread, but highly useful for those who own cats!
Posted by genop | October 10, 2006 4:09 PM
The Oregonian?
Posted by Bark Munster | October 10, 2006 5:12 PM
The Oregonian is read by people who live in a large village known as Portland and who want to keep it that way.
Posted by M.H.W. | October 10, 2006 5:17 PM
The O is read by those of us who became addicted to reading a daily paper as children and justify it because we own cats.
Posted by Cynthia | October 10, 2006 5:37 PM
...or ferrets.
Posted by Shelley | October 10, 2006 6:47 PM
Blogs are read by people who write comments.
Posted by skyview satellite | October 10, 2006 8:16 PM
The Oregonian is read by people who don't know they can read all these other newspapers on-line--and get the same stuff a day earlier.
Posted by Gil Johnson | October 10, 2006 9:56 PM
The Oregonian would be worth a nickle if it were Charmin soft...
Posted by Talis | October 10, 2006 11:24 PM
The Harvard Crimson and the Yale Daily News are written by people who want after graduation to be able to write for the New York Times or read the Washington Post, but are secretly embarrassed that they don't understand the math in USA Today.
Posted by Isaac Laquedem | October 11, 2006 2:45 PM