It’s an Enquirer kind of day. Saw this headline:
Trapper hired to remove coyotes
… and it made me think of this:
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Our new news overlords? Last week, we followed up this post with one concerning the fact that AOL is gobbling up lots of the really good journalists that the apparently dying newspaper industry has spit out. In fact, it appears that they’ve got a news force of about 1500–which is a lot of folks. Not [...] Curious about how our fine paper would frame the layoffs, I came across this article on their website’s front page: Cin Weekly becomes Metromix Wow. No mention of the layoffs, just a “rebranding.” Never mind the fact that it’s much, much more than that, and that this article is utterly pregnant with the pain of 100 people. [...] All sorts of tweets are showing up on Twitter right now regarding the rumored Enquirer job cuts that have been floating around for the past month or so. Looks like the whole thing’s coming down on CinWeekly and Metromix. In short, we’re sorry to hear this and are thinking of you guys who got the boot. Will [...] Not this kind of Mayhem, silly. click for photo credit. This article from The Enquirer’s site went up yesterday morning, and upon viewing the headline (“Murder, mayhem keep cops busy,” fwiw), I asked myself the question, “What exactly is mayhem, anyway?” Your definition, in terms of what I think The Enquirer means: “Random or deliberate [...] Because I couldn't find one of nose-thumbing. In this Sunday’s edition of the Enquirer, Peter Bronson had a bit in the local news section about Newport’s history, and specifically, Johnny “TV” Peluso. The piece was, in Bronson form, more or less a personal essay about his encounter with Johnny TV, who’s Newport’s still-well-known former mayor, [...] |
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