Care for a little news with your smut?
I grew up in the New York City area, in a household that believed that the New York Times was the only newspaper with any value above lining the cat box. So it comes as a great shock to my mother that I have actually - GASP! - started reading the New York Daily News and, I'm almost embarrassed to say, I actually like it. http://www.nydailynews.com/
For those of you from other less civilized parts of the world, like Pittsburgh, The Times would be very Shadyside, Sewickly and Mt. Lebanon. The Daily News would be very Bloomfield, Southside and McKees Rocks.
Still, you have to love a paper that can - with an absolute lack of embarrassment - ignore the entire world in favor of the most absurd local news. Several weeks ago, when Zarqawi was killed in Iraq, his death ran third banana behind a Brazilian Hooker and the ongoing Mafia Cops story (a great story that the Times covered also, to be fair). Today, when the Times has the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the Microsoft fines in Europe and possible sanctions for North Korea, the Daily News is running not one.... not two....not three....but four - count 'em - FOUR front page stories about this idiot doctor who blew up his $9,000,000 62nd street townhouse to prevent his estranged wife from getting it in the divorce settlement. Four Articles!!!
Oh, and did you know that Donna Hanover, Rudy Giuliani’s ex-wife is going to be a media sex coach for AOL? Me neither, but as of this typing it is THE biggest headline on the page. It Reads:
For those of you from other less civilized parts of the world, like Pittsburgh, The Times would be very Shadyside, Sewickly and Mt. Lebanon. The Daily News would be very Bloomfield, Southside and McKees Rocks.
Still, you have to love a paper that can - with an absolute lack of embarrassment - ignore the entire world in favor of the most absurd local news. Several weeks ago, when Zarqawi was killed in Iraq, his death ran third banana behind a Brazilian Hooker and the ongoing Mafia Cops story (a great story that the Times covered also, to be fair). Today, when the Times has the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the Microsoft fines in Europe and possible sanctions for North Korea, the Daily News is running not one.... not two....not three....but four - count 'em - FOUR front page stories about this idiot doctor who blew up his $9,000,000 62nd street townhouse to prevent his estranged wife from getting it in the divorce settlement. Four Articles!!!
Oh, and did you know that Donna Hanover, Rudy Giuliani’s ex-wife is going to be a media sex coach for AOL? Me neither, but as of this typing it is THE biggest headline on the page. It Reads:
Donna, whats your advice?
My Hubby's a homewrecker!
This is the newspaper that made Joey Buttafuco (sp? Who the hell knows?) a national celebrity. What started as a minor assault became a huge sensation when the DN endlessly ran every salacious detail about the 16-year old *ahem* entrepreneur, Amy Fisher, who shot Joey's wife's face off. It ran for months in the DN and NEVER even got a mention in the Times.
Other great headlines today include:
Other great headlines today include:
NYC Reggae concert cancelled after gay protests
Appeals court has bad news for Dapper Don's older brother
Inspiration behind Seinfeld's 'Soup Nazi' franchises in Britain
Australian charged in parking rage case
Free gas sets off crashes in Milwaukee
Man fined in Buffalo for bigamy
And, less we think this paper doesn’t get out and about, a story from right here in Pittsburgh:
P.A. man, 80, admits dealing crack for sex
There’s an article about Jews for Jesus, but not a single solitary iota of real news anywhere on the front page of this paper. This is the ultimate print version of ‘Bread and Circuses’. If you’re looking for a little entertainment instead of real news this is a great resourse AND it is free online.
Enjoy!
posted by Unconscionable at 8:04 PM
1 Comments:
and yet somehow it's still better than the Post.
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