Friday, February 03, 2006

Newspaper Demographics

My Corporations Professor passed out a printout of an e-mail he received a few years ago today. The e-mail is a rundown of who reads what newspapers. I post here, because I found it rather amusing:

Who reads what newspapers?

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.
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 chart format.
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 they 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 coutnry or that anyone is running it; but whoever is, they oppose all that they stand for.
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.

Some of you may have read this before, but it was new to me, and thus humorous.

2 comments:

particleman said...

12. The Houston Chronicle is read by people who drive dualie V-10 super extra extended cab trucks with lots of magnetic ribbons on the back proclaiming the various things they do and do not stand for.

alternate:

12. The Houston Chronicle is read by people who don't care who's running the country as long as they don't get stuck on I-10.

Bookworm said...

Old to me, and I re-read it every time I see it, because I think it is so clever.