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The quadrennial presidential circus in the US is now safely behind us (whew!!) but there is always some fun to be had with discussions. The newspapers mentioned below are all US but I thought that from the descriptions, you could fill in the UK equivalents.

 

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An easy guide to keeping political news in

perspective ...

 

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

poor 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 is 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 if 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. The Seattle Times is read by people who have

recently caught a fish and need something to

wrap it in.

" My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!" - Harry Truman, 33rd US President

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From the series Yes, Prime Minister, 1987

 

Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; The Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; And The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.

 

Sir Humphrey: Oh and Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?

 

Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.

John S

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