Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Mission Accomplished?


Nihilistic cape and futility belt not included.

How hard would it be to publish a daily newspaper in NYC? It seems to me that there is a large market that is underserved in Manhattan. People buy the Post before they get on the subway because it only costs a quarter and it's easily digestible. But it's an angry, shitty, right-wing mouthpiece blaring like a tone-deaf lout into the faces of weary commuters.

The formula is so simple. Get a funny picture like the one above, give it an ironic headline and as Tom Friedman likes to say, "Presto!" Then steal Rush & Molloy or get A.J. Benza to write a gossip column and actually put it on page six. Editorials and letters to the editor would be on page nine, op-eds on page ten. And we could put anything we wanted in there such as:

David Brooks Is A Twerp
David Brooks Is Full Of Sh*T
Why Is David Brooks
So Respected? (if you read his entire column it usually makes no sense)
Etc...

Also, we could do blind items like the Post.

...which CNN anchor thinks being fair and balanced means
parroting conservative talking points on virtually every imaginable topic and
giving anyone who doesn't a really hard time?...just asking.
(answer: all of them)


Take the top few international, national, and business stories from the wire, do regular sports, and have a great entertainment section and you've got a paper most New Yorkers would far prefer. Now all we need's about $30million.


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