This “reader-response criticism” of the daily press just arrived in an
\ne-mail message, and it’s too good not to share:<\/P>
\n
1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the 7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren’t too 11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store.<\/P> <\/FONT>I don’t know where this wit and wisdom This “reader-response criticism” of the daily press just arrived in an e-mail message, and it’s too good not to share: 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-92","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ncountry.
2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the
\ncountry.
3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the
\ncountry and who are very good at crossword puzzles.
4. USA Today is read by people
\nwho think they ought to run the country but don’t really understand The New York Times. They
\ndo, however, like their statistics shown in pie charts.
5. The Los Angeles Times is read
\nby people who wouldn’t mind running the country – if they could find the time — and if they didn’t
\nhave to leave Southern California to do it.
6. The Boston Globe is read by people
\nwhose parents used to run the country and did a far superior job of it, thank you very
\nmuch.<\/FONT><\/P>
\n
\nsure who’s running the country and don’t really care as long as they can get a seat on the
\ntrain.
8. The New York Post is read by people who don’t care who’s running the
\ncountry as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while
\nintoxicated.
9. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country
\nbut need the baseball scores.
10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who
\naren’t sure there is a country … or that anyone is running it; but if so, they oppose all that they
\nstand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority feminist atheist
\ndwarfs who also happen to be illegal aliens from any other country or galaxy provided, of course,
\nthat they are not<\/U> Republicans.<\/P>
\n
\n
\noriginated, but let’s have more of it.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"