May 8, 2004

Who’s Reading What?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Jim @ 11:27 am

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 crosswords.

4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don’t really understand the Washington Post. 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 spare the time, and if they didn’t have to leave LA 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 San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren’t sure there is a country …. or that anyone is running it; but whoever it is, 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 country or galaxy as long as they are Democrats.

10. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country but need the baseball scores.

I’d like to add one of my own.

The Newark Star Ledger is read by people who know how good a Taylor ham on a hard roll is.

Thanks (for #’s 1-10) to Melinda, a Bay Area resident with a healthy sense of humor.

7 Comments »

  1. A guide to readership in the US of A

    JFM finds this highly accurate and more than a bit amusing [with a bit of local humour tossed in] !!…

    Trackback by Dodgeblogium — May 8, 2004 @ 11:44 am

  2. What the papers say… about the people who read them

    Net surfing this afternoon, I found this list on Parkway Rest Stop: The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country. The New…

    Trackback by Scott's place — May 8, 2004 @ 12:27 pm

  3. I’ve heard USA Today called “the McPaper,” which still makes me snicker.

    Comment by topdawg — May 8, 2004 @ 3:58 pm

  4. Parkway Rest Stop is read by people with exquisite taste.

    Comment by Jack Bog — May 9, 2004 @ 6:49 am

  5. only if the Taylor ham is thick and slightly well done and the roll has poppy seeds.

    Comment by gregor — May 10, 2004 @ 12:43 pm

  6. I Like My Hard Roll With A Side-Order Of Scandal

    Jim at the Parkway Rest Stop posts this analysis of your personality based on what you read. As somebody who reads the Star-Ledger and New York Post most days, I’m apparently a connoisseur of bad breakfast food who also likes…

    Trackback by JoeTerrito.com — May 10, 2004 @ 1:49 pm

  7. The Chicago Tribune is read by those who are so absorbed in Illinois politics that they don’t realize there’s another world out there.

    Comment by buffy — May 11, 2004 @ 10:14 pm

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