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Lileks reviews the LA Times
Part of today's "Bleat"The papers suck. Pardon the language, but for heavens sake, the papers sucked. The papers sucked hard enough to pull Jupiter out of orbit. I had gotten used to the underwhelmingly ordinary Arizona paper, but the LA Times and the San Diego paper were a new level of sucktitudinousness. The SD paper was like a slab of Sominex pounded into thin folded sheets, and I dont know if it was the lead story Sweeping Regulatory Powers Sought, or something equally deadly or the cookie-cutter design, but man, that thing was dull; when I finished I felt like Id put 50 cents into a soda machine, got nothing, and realized I didnt really want any soda anyway. On to the LA Times, which surprised me I have almost no experience with the paper, except its reputation, which surely was exaggerated. Well. I blew through it quickly, and when I was finished the only impression it left was astonishment that a market that large had such a weightless, arid, aimless paper. It has the typeface of a better paper, but thats about it. I finished both before I was halfway through my Ironed Chicken Sandwich really, it was so thin, thats probably how they cooked it and I spent the rest of my time reading the internet on my iPhone. I wandered down the street to a coffee shop, had some ice cream, and finished my news reading on the iPhone. If Id never had one of those you know, newspaper might be in trouble moments, that would have been it. . . . Posted by: Mike 2008-04-08 |
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