September 12, 2004

WUXTRY, WUXTRY

MSM newspaper readship revealed:

  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.

  11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store.

Heh.

Posted by feste at September 12, 2004 12:19 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Funny. This last week, the bio lab was on statistics. "what kind of graphic display is best for this kind of data?" I asked. Someone answered "a pie chart" and I said "only if it's going in USA today" and explained that it was a high ink-to-information kind of graphic not well thot of in scientific circles necessarily.

Posted by: fred1st at September 12, 2004 02:04 PM

Yum. Pie.

Posted by: feste at September 12, 2004 02:07 PM
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