What's your local paper's uncomplimentary nickname?

[Oeditpus Rex]

Seems like they've all got 'em; XemaSab talks about the Penlight (Record-Searchlight) in her city. Hereabouts, the Free Lance is known to many as the Fifty-Cent Lance, and a few miles north the Dispatch is the Disgrace.

What's yours?

[kick-ass-bob]

1. News and Observer:

News and Disturber.

[DS1]

2. The Framingham Fabricator

:D

[Radical Activist]

3. State Urinal aka the State Journal-Register

[Midlodemocrat]

4. Times Disgrace.

[underpants]

15. LOL Have you seen this?

It seems to have taken on a life of it's own (Brad Marrs's LTTE)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x186776

[Midlodemocrat]

21. His LTTE was unbelievable in its sheer stupidity.

He can forget running for anything ever again.

[KitchenWitch]

5. The St Paul Pioneer Press

is the St Paul Republican Press (they endorsed Bush)

[azmouse]

6. Arizona Repulsive

[jane_pippin]

7. Another "Urinal" over here

for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Not sure if there's a nickname for the Sentinel part though. Nor do I care--I never read the rag.

[RetroLounge]

62. The Urinal-Genital

:rofl:

RL

[jane_pippin]

115. Oh, now that's not bad!

:D

[Lavender Brown]

8. Albany Times Useless

aka Times Union

[Oeditpus Rex]

57. I know two people there

from a web forum for copy editors. I'll be sure to pass that along. :evilgrin:

[Lavender Brown]

66. Uh oh

:yoiks:

[weeble_wobble]

9. San Francisco Comical

[Richardo]

19. Also: The Houston Comical

[Oeditpus Rex]

25. Ah, but you gotta admit

the Chron is one of the most left-leaning papers out there. Has been as long as I can remember. :thumbsup:

[scarlet_owl]

10. My mom always called the News-Gazette the "News Gazelle"

[XemaSab]

11. The Eureka Times-Standard

is the Sub-Standard and the Bee (Sacto, Fresno, Modesto) is the B-Minus.

The old San Francisco Examiner used to be called "Brand X" by Herb Caen.

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. B-Minus is an old joke

Around 1980, CSU Fresno (often erroneously called Fresno State) parodied the Fresno Bee with a paper called the B-Minus. It had a huge A1 hed that said something like 'LOCAL MAN INJURED IN HUGE EXPLOSION,' and beneath it a tiny subhead, 'Idaho wiped off the map.'

I sorta know the editor of the T-S. She used to be special sections editor of a paper near here.

[XemaSab]

91. That reminds me of a joke a friend of mine made about the Marin IJ:

"Nuclear blast destroys New York City; Tiburon man feared among the dead"

[Oeditpus Rex]

96. It's an old joke, but there's truth to it

Like in "The Paper," when the wire editor's talking about what's in the wire budget and after each story about people killed in Beirut or somewhere says, "...none from New York."

All news is local. Or so the saying goes. :eyes:

[madinmaryland]

12. Well, there's the Moonie Times,

never really heard anything for the Washington Post. (Other than derogatory comments about woodward and debbie howell).

[KamaAina]

53. I've seen "The Washington Pest" hereabouts.

Never more apropos than now during Bloggate!

[lumberingbear]

13. "Orlando SLANTinel"

for the Orlando Sentinel.

[Initech]

14. Los Angeles Slimes

And I havent found a nickname for the Orange County Register yet, but I refer to it as the RNC Register.

[Beware the Beast Man]

16. Plain Squealer.

[asthmaticeog]

114. Pain Feeler.

[Maccagirl]

17. The Columbus Disgrace

or, my favorite, The Columbus Discharge.

[GOPisEvil]

18. I grew up with the San Antonio Blight and San Antonio Excess.

The Blight is long gone now, though.

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. Wasn't that the Blight and Chopper?

Or Blight and Snooper?

:rofl:

[GOPisEvil]

31. Hmm...I just called it "The Blight".

It's real name was "The San Antonio Light". San Antonio also has "The San Antonio Express-News".

[Oeditpus Rex]

35. I guess that was made up

In "Semi-Tough," it was the... shit, never mind. I'm an idiot. "Semi-Tough" was based in Fort Worth.

:silly:

[bertha katzenengel]

20. Orange County Republican (Orange County Register) n/t

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. You're kidding

Considering its audience, the OCR is pretty balanced. And it has an outstanding sports section; kicks the holy crap out of the LAT.

[bertha katzenengel]

38. It only has that nick because it's IN Orange County.

Okay. I confess. I've only ever heard one person call it that, and he is a knee-jerk radical super-left wing guy. :shrug:

[DBoon]

44. Orange County Red-Baiter

is what I've heard it called

[Initech]

47. I call it the RNC Register

That seems like it'd be a more appropriate name! :evilgrin:

[Shine]

24. The Santa Cruz Senile

("officially" Santa Cruz Sentinel) :eyes:

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. Yeah, I've heard that one for years

But the Sentinel's a pretty good paper — one of the best of its size in Kollyforniya. And Schmuel Thayler is an outSTANding photographer.

I used to work with a couple of their reporters, Stacey Vreeken and Wallace Baine.

[Shine]

40. Oh yeah? What did you do? Are you in journalism?

My dtr's 3rd grade class just had a field trip to the Sentinel a few weeks ago, which I signed up to drive on. I hadn't been inside before and we got the full tour. The paper actually celebrates 150 yrs of being in business this year, making it THE oldest biz in Santa Cruz Co., actually. I didn't know that little factoid.

What was striking about the actual tour we took was noting all the modern ways they use to create the daily newspaper, using computer technology. and yet the juxtaposition of it being in the same building, printing it ON premises, for the past 40 years. That's a LOT of dirt and grime build-up, esp. in the printing press room, believe me. It was interesting.

My daughter was particularly thrilled with the SC Sentinel pen each kid got sent home with.

Before parenthood, I used to sell display advertising for a newsweekly in Santa Cruz called The Sun, kind of what The Metro is now. It brought back memories to be in that news print scene again...working on deadline, the stress, the pressure....I don't miss it, but I had some fun, I must admit.

:hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

45. I was

Until a couple of years ago. I was sports editor, then city editor of the paper here.

In the mid-'90s I was a sportswriter at the R-P in Watsonville. Stacey was features editor and Wallace was cops reporter.

It is a rather fascinating process, isn't it? What always amazed me, even after years in newsrooms, was how it all comes together to crank out a new paper every day.

[Shine]

46. Oh, that's cool, Rex.

Yeah, it's amazing, alright.

Are you retired now? Do you miss it?

[Oeditpus Rex]

50. I'm not old enough to be retired

I was one of seven people fired from the paper here a couple years ago in an effort to increase profits.

I miss elements of it — the camaraderie, the odd newsroom humor, deadline adrenaline, being among the first to know.

I don't miss the business end; it's ugly. The suits are all about selling papers and making huge profits while editorial is about reporting news as accurately as possible, but the suits want us to do it with a minimum of resources. Oh, and don't offend any car dealers, since they pay the bills.

[Shine]

51. Yup, you've totally got that right. It's always about the almight dollar

and pleasing the advertisers. I can't count the number of times my advertising accounts would want some special sort of "write-up" on their business just because they were buying a damn ad. :eyes:

I also have fond memories of feeling like I had my hand on the pulse of the community. I got comped to a LOT of free concerts back then, too, which was really fun. I liked the social aspect of it, the best.

That sucks that you got fired. I'm sorry about that, buddy.

Well, at least you can get appreciation for your oddball humor here in the lounge. :hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

55. I can't count the number of times

I wrote or edited those stories — always at the publisher's insistence. :grr:

We weren't allowed comps in editorial. Used to get scads of tickets to the San Francisco Boat Show (a promoter over your way, Pete Ciccarelli, puts it on) and I'd give 'em to the ad manager to give to clients or whatever.

When I was sports editor, though, I got a very touching gift from the high-school cross country team. They'd never gotten any coverage before, even though they were a perennial league champion and section powerhouse, and I covered 'em because I thought all prep sports deserved coverage. At the end of one season they gave me a team jacket with my name and "Thanks" embroidered on it. I broke down and cried when I saw it, and it remains one of my most prized possessions.

That's one thing I really miss from writing sports: the kids. They kept me young and helped me keep perspective.

[Shine]

56. Aaawwww, what a sweet story. I can see why you'd love the jacket

so much. What goes around, comes around...

[fizzgig]

100. this is of some small comfort to me

that it's not just me being pounded sans k-y at my paper

it's the business end that is killing journalism

it took finding out one of the papers about 30 miles away was expanding to a regional to light the fire under the higher ups' asses

i know i've said it before, but gannett can lick my ass

on topic, i don't know what uncomplimentary names people give my paper, but i like to call it less than fish wrap

[justabob]

26. Dallas Morning Snooze nt

[Skittles]

95. DALLAS WHORING NEWS

YES INDEED

[justabob]

105. That one is MUCH better... I hate that rag

[Reverend_Smitty]

28. Trentonian-- Trashtonian

They've pretty much said that they won't cover Governor Corzine unless it is a story that is embarrassing for him politically. They didn't even cover his inauguration despite the fact that the newspaper is located less than 5 miles away from the event.

[jobycom]

30. Austin Sectarian Spaceman. nt

[GOPisEvil]

37. No Pasaran calls it the "Real Estatesman".

[jobycom]

41. LOL! That's about right. But the initials aren't as appropriate!nt

[mac56]

32. The Strib

or the Hammer Sickle and Star Tribune
or the Pravda of the Prairie

in Atlanta it was the Journal-Constipation

[nykiera]

33. Syracuse Substandard

aka Syracuse Post-Standard.

[BigMcLargehuge]

34. Derry Snooze and the Manchester Union Misleader

those are ours

[CaliforniaPeggy]

36. The Daily Wind for......

The Daily Breeze!

:rofl:

[blackcatpgh]

39. The Herald-Blabber

old hometown newspaper

[jpgray]

42. The Red Star Tribune (dubbed thus by conservatives in the state)

I've also heard it called the "Star and Sickle."

[DBoon]

43. San Pedro News Pilot == "Fish Wrapper"

in honor of the great port town, and of the highest use for that logn forgotten rag

[hippiechick]

48. Indy Star: The Paper with a Prayer

'cept ... it's not just a nickname.

They really DO publish a prayer on the inside of the front page every day. :puke:

[WolverineDG]

49. San Antonio Excuse for News n/t

[SofaKingLiberal]

52. Orlando Sentinel - Orlando Slantinel n/t

[RubyDuby in GA]

54. The Covington News

is the Covington Snooze. Trust me on this one.

[Robb]

58. The Podunk Daily Shitrag

...with props to "America: The Book." :D

[greendog]

59. The Hungry Whore News...

http://www.hungryhorsenews.com/

...and:

The Daily Manure Spreader
http://www.dailyinterlake.com/

[peekaloo]

60. When i lived in Houston it was known as The Comical.

When they had 2 papers the other was called the Compost.

[IcyPeas]

61. The Los Angeles Dog Trainer

(that's what Harry Shearer calls it)

[Rowdyboy]

63. The Clarion Ledger becomes "The Clarion Liar"

[B Calm]

64. The Comical News ( Commercial News )

[Chemical Bill]

65. The Providence urinal...

is sometimes known as the Providence Journal. But it also bills itself as the projo, which nicely becomes the blojo. Then Belo, from Texas, bought it, so it's also the belojo.

Bill

[TallahasseeGrannie]

67. The Tallahassee Democrap

[Throd]

68. Long Beach Press Taliban

Their editorial board is all over the map. I think somewhere in Long Beach is a warehouse containing the proverbial 10,000 monkeys with typewriters.

[pitohui]

69. "tipsy"

the new orleans newspaper used to be called the times-picayune states item, get it, resulting in this undignified nickname based on the acronym, they seem to have quietly dropped the states item bit but even just times-picayune sounds pretty bad if you think abt it

[CottonBear]

70. Athens Banana-Herald, Athens, GA:Athens Banner-Herald owned by Republicans

:(

[maveric]

71. Lawrence Fecal -Tribune.

From my old hometown's Lawrence (MA), Eagle-Tribune

[Hoooweee]

72. The Virginian Pravda

[Bozita]

73. "The Freep" aka The Detroit Free Press -- check the link ...

www.freep.com

[Jamastiene]

74. The Richmond County Daily Journal is so

thin and fraught with errors that we refer to it as the "Daily Urinal." It is only good for dogs to pee on.

[CAG]

75. The Daily Oklahoman: The Daily Disappointment (nt)

[fishwax]

83. Or The Daily Joklahoman (Daily Joke, for short) n/t

[Vidar]

76. Wretched Eagle

[graywarrior]

77. The Conway Scum when I lived in NH

I don't read the Sarasota Herald unless it's about the missing groom or Paris Hilton's new shoes.

[elshiva]

78. What about The Baltimore Sun?

It's just "Da Sun" in Bawlmoran, but that is not bad. What would it be?
The Scun "In the Scun today, tits and inflation."???

[LearnedHand]

79. Honest to god, not a nickname: Chattanooga News-Free Press

I don't think they're in business anymore, or have now merged with the other Chattanooga paper. The hyphen was not a joke; it was the paper's actual name. Made the Chattanooga rag the laughingstock of Southern newspapers.

[Oeditpus Rex]

80. Classic

And a fine example of another reason papers shouldn't merge.

[rustydog]

81. Yakima Herald Republic: Yakima Horrid Repugnant

[Lex]

82. News & Observer = News & Disturber.

Raleigh NC's paper.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

113. News Gets Absurder also...

I used that a lot :D

[HEyHEY]

84. The Vancouver Sun

That's insulting enough

[Oeditpus Rex]

85. Dood, if I lived in Vancouver

I wouldn't care if the paper was in Venusian. I'd be a cappy hamper.

Anyway, there's always the Province.

[HEyHEY]

87. Ah! Even worse

But I buy it for Michael Smyth... great columnist

[Oeditpus Rex]

88. Not for Sorelle Saidman?

:shrug:

[HEyHEY]

89. And not for That ferguson asshole either

[Kali]

86. The Red Star

at least that's what the wing nuts call the Arizona Daily Star. They think it leans left and compared to the Repulsive (see above) I suppose it is...

the alt weekly gets called the Weakly or Tweakly.

[Ladyhawk]

90. The "DUD"

It used to be called the "Daily Union Democrat." Now it's just the "Union Democrat," which is odd because this is a red county.

[Oeditpus Rex]

94. Didn't they cut back to two or three days a week?

Or am I thinking of the Sierra Star? :shrug:

[Ladyhawk]

110. I don't know. I don't subscribe to the DUD. :D n/t

[tyedyeto]

101. LOL I was thinking of that one when I first saw this thread.

I still read the online version a couple days a week.

Back in the late 70's when I first moved there, the county was more blue than red, if I recall. Now, it is definitely red.

BTW, I will be up that way sometime in May.

[Heidi]

92. I think "Tessiner Zeitung" is bad enough without a nick, don't you?

http://www.tessinerzeitung.ch/

[Oeditpus Rex]

98. Man, they need copy editors *bad*

I can't even read that.

[enigmatic]

93. The Edmonton Sewer

Ugh.

[thinkingwoman]

97. The Horrible-Terrible

AKA The Herald-Times of Bloomington, IN

[wickerwoman]

99. The Pre-Intelligencer

for the Post-Intelligencer. If that's still a newspaper (help me out anyone who's lived in Seattle in the last twelve years).

[Oeditpus Rex]

103. It is, but

it has a JOA with the Times, and the P-I is suffering.

[mokawanis]

102. Wisconsin State Journal and the Capital Times

are sometimes called the Wisconsin State Urinal and the Crap Times.

[Mutley]

104. Nothing clever, just stupid paper.

:D The Baltimore Sun

[wildhorses]

106. the daily record= the daily liar

[1gobluedem]

107. Ann Arbor Snooze

Instead of Ann Arbor News. In Lansing, it's the Lansing State Urinal instead of State Journal.

[StaggerLee]

112. I've heard it referred to as the Liberal State Journal

:hi:

[UrbScotty]

108. Grand Republican Press

They've basically raised Repub guv candidate Dick DeVos to sainthood.

They were also the only paper in the state to endorse Bush. Even the Detroit News withheld an endorsement.

It doesn't help that quite a few Repubs (including DeVos) live around here, but that's no excuse.

[ScreamingMeemie]

109. The Detroit Spews...and The Free Press actually calls itself "The Freep".

:rofl: That one is "supposed" to be more liberal. Try linking to there in GD and see what happens. :hi:

[Brewman_Jax]

111. The Atlanta Urinal-Constipation

for the Journal-Constitution.

[Tom_Foolery]

116. Messy Ink...

for the Messenger-Inquirer.