{"id":393,"date":"2005-03-24T11:22:54","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T16:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=393"},"modified":"2005-03-24T11:40:57","modified_gmt":"2005-03-24T16:40:57","slug":"you-are-the-news-you-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/you-are-the-news-you-read\/","title":{"rendered":"You are the News you read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forwarded from many folks, most recently the poet Terri Ford. I am solidly in numbers 3 and 11 (but prefer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklyworldnews.com\/\">the Weekly World News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.<\/p>\n<p>2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.<\/p>\n<p>3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country and who are very good at crossword puzzles.<\/p>\n<p>4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don&#8217;t really understand The New York Times. They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie charts.<\/p>\n<p>5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn&#8217;t mind running the country&#8211;if they could find the time and if they didn&#8217;t have to leave Southern California to do it.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren&#8217;t too sure who&#8217;s running the country and don&#8217;t really care as long as they can get a seat on the train.<\/p>\n<p>8. The New York Post is read by people who don&#8217;t care who&#8217;s running the country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.<\/p>\n<p>9. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country but need the baseball scores.<\/p>\n<p>10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren&#8217;t sure there is a country &#8230; or that anyone is running it; but if so, they oppose all that they stand for.<\/p>\n<p>11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store.<\/p>\n<p>12. None of the above is read by the guy who is running the country into the ground.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forwarded from many folks, most recently the poet Terri Ford. I am solidly in numbers 3 and 11 (but prefer the Weekly World News): 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","category-news-of-news","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}