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Merger announced: Gray Lady in red — 13 Comments

  1. 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.

  2. 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.”

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  4. 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.

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

  6. 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.

  7. “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.]

  8. 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.

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

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

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