Just for Laughs: Newsies!

Jun 22, 2018 / By Elaine Belsito
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Advisor Funnies: How does newspaper circulation in 2018 compare to 1940? Plus, who reads what, how to tell facts from opinions, and more…

Newspaper circulation continues to decline, but right now it is just about equal to that of 1940. The image pictured below is from an interactive original—click it to reach the original, where you can get more details.

Source: Pew Research Center

Who reads the newspaper

  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.
  4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don’t really understand the Washington Post. They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie chart format.
  5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn’t mind running the country, if they could spare the time, and if they didn’t have to leave LA to do it.
  6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and they 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 San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren’t sure there is a country or that anyone is running it; but whoever it is, 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 country or galaxy as long as they are Democrats.
  10. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country but need the baseball scores.
  11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store.

Trying to retain a crack journalist

Source: YouTube

You see what you want to see…

Source: Pew Research Center

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