Life and print in New Jersey
Zippy wants The Star-Ledger and The Jersey Journal not to die.
Zounds
I just figured out what my New York Times and Washington Post subscriptions have been costing me.
No endorsements
Shameful. And shameful.
Orange Crate Art: Newspapers and novels
Walter Benjamin: “One may, if necessary, read the newspaper while eating. But never a novel. These are two conflicting obligations.”
“Queens man indicted”
The Queens Daily Eagle comes through.
Newsstands
From Trevor Traynor: Newstands, 100 photographs.
“Waffles Has a Good Time”
A cat riding a horse.
Pedro Almodóvar in my local paper
I wonder what algorithm chose this headline as one of the three top stories in the online edition of my local paper: “Pedro Almodóvar warns against algorithms in Instagram row.”
Dream headline
“DIY Supermarket Erases Thousands Who Opposed Russia.”
You’re out
Yesterday our local paper published USDA guidelines for when to toss Thanksgiving leftovers.
“Queens man impeached”
That’s the headline from the Queens Daily Eagle, which is having fun keeping the news local.
Complete sentences
An odd sentence from The Washington Post.
Today’s headlines
A Zippy panel.
All the news that’s print
“Get news. Not too quickly. Avoid social.”
In the news
According to our local newspaper.
Local man voices criticism
The local paper often refuses to be local in its headlines.
The Post New York Post
A parody from 1984: the Post New York Post.
Times as Post
If the New York Post were The New York Times.
WSJ vulgarity
The Wall Street Journal now allows the printing of vulgarities. The New York Times should follow suit.
Plainfield T.
An imaginary football team.
Orange newspaper art
Does anyone out there read Mandarin orange?
Inappropriate stock photo accompanies news item
“Female healthy lifestyle.”
Anthony Lane on tabloid journalism
Two choice sentences on Murdoch’s tabloids.
There’s something about Rupert
“He reminds me of someone. Who could it be?”
Murdoch’s issues
“Murdoch’s phrasing places blame not on individual agents but on difficulties and problems that were somehow in the air. It’s like a driver blaming issues with alcohol for the damage to his car.”
Ebert on Murdoch
“This man has done more to harm journalism in America and Britain than any other person.”
Pogue, Hunsecker
Columnists and PR people.
The Daily v. NYTimes for iPad
Mild and infrequent violence in news apps
Posting the news
A Jack Delano photograph of a newspaper's front window
Weekly World News in Google Books
Many issues!