Newspaper Readership Demographics...

[Jackpine Radical]

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 and who are very good at crossword puzzles.

4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country
but don't really understand The New York Times. They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie charts.

5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running
the country-if they could find the time-and if they didn't have to leave Southern California to do it.

6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the
country and 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 Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country
but need the baseball scores.

10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure there is a country ... or that anyone is running it; but if so, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority feminist atheist dwarfs who also happen to be illegal aliens from any other country or galaxy provided, of course, that they are not Republicans.

11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the
grocery store.

12. None of these is read by the guy who is running the country into the ground.

[ben_packard]

1. I've read a similar one about the UK papers

don't know which is the original, very good though :o)

[ztn]

2. You forgot the Washington Times

The far right neo-con cousin of the Washington Post has to have a demographic description!!

I suggest:

The Washington Times is read by people who, deep down, know the people who read the Wall Street Journal run the country, but for the sake of Republican Partisanship, pretend they think the country is run by the people who read the New York Times and the Washington Post.

[Clark2008]

3. Good one!!

[ztn]

4. Yeah, I just thought the that one for the W Times...(Funny Pun!)

I just wonder if I'm giving those readers too much credit. Maybe it's read by the toadies of the neo-cons who really think the readers of the NYT and WP run the country. Maybe it's both.

[ztn]

5. add on to National Enquirer....

The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the
grocery store...AND HAVE NO IDEA WHO'S RUNNING THE COUNTRY OR HOW IT IS RUN.