March 23, 2006
NY Post to Daily News: F-U!
Every few months the two New York City tabloids go at it like little girls in a schoolyard fight-- lots of hissing and scratching over something really silly. In this case, The Post is accusing The Daily News about lying about it's $1 million giveaway. This is actually a followup to their coverage of the Daily News Disaster last year, when the paper accidently printed FOUR HUNDRED winning tickets for a similar giveaway. Anyway, here's what the Post said:
"Will you find a $1 million card in this paper?" the headline blared last Sunday.The answer is unequivocally "NO" - and the brass at the Daily News knows it full well.
But only a reader who gets to the fine print of the contest rules learns there is only "one [$1 million] prize available during the five-week period of Week 1 through Week 5."
And in Week 2 of the game (March 5-11) Donna Murphy of Queens won the million-dollar booty - actually a $25,000 annuity paid out over a whopping 40 years, with a present value of only $460,000.
That means the next million-dollar prize won't be available until Week 6 - starting April 2.
Shocker: reading the Daily News is unlikely to make you rich! Then again, burned once, shame on them, burned twice, shame on you. If you're buying the Daily News as an investment strategy, you probably deserve what you get. And in a completely and totally unrelated story, the Post is offering a $6 million dollar scratch-off this week. Meow!
While we're on the topic of newspapers: the Times got caught in another sloppy reporting scandal-- apparently they published a sob-story about a Katrina victim, who later turned out to be a con-artist.
|
I buy the Daily News for the comics.
I wouldn't buy the Post until Rupert and his minions leave.
KRAMER: You got money?
GEORGE: No.
KRAMER: Do you have a woman?
GEORGE: No.
KRAMER: Do you have any prospects?
GEORGE: No.
KRAMER: You got anything on the horizon?
GEORGE: Uh...no.
KRAMER: Do you have any action at all?
GEORGE: No.
KRAMER: Do you have any conceivable reason for even getting up in the morning?
GEORGE: I like to get the Daily News!
Does anyone get the Daily News giveaway commercial? It's the one where the guy in the yellow Lamborgini drives up to the toll gate, at which point he tosses out some bills as the fall to the ground. The toll gate attendant lifts the gate and then has it crashes on the hood of the Lamborgini, then continues to repeat it. I'm quite clueless, can anyone fill me in?
it's = its
followup = follow up
Used to be a daily News buyer until the ink smudges started to get on my nerves, also I started to get my news on the web. Still get the Sunday News though.
I get the Post for laughs, Sports and Gossip They have the best headlines ever!
Best headlines ever? You're kidding, right? Their headlines make me a little crazy. And the best part is I bet they think they're clever when they come up with them. (Speaking of "They" I want to meet the headline writing committee at The Post. I want to meet the people who say "Yeah! THAT'S BRILLIANT!")
One favorite of mine, at least the one I can remember off the top of my head, is the one that read: "COLLISION IN THE OUCHFIELD." after two baseball players collided.
But I have to admit, it's really funny seeing them fight with one another.
hi #7 Flushing,
the concept is that the tollgate attendant just won millions from the daily news and can afford to be a jerk and get his sorry ass fired. i think the tag is something like, "how will you choose to get fired?" it says a lot about what the daily news thinks of their readers when they assume that, once they have some money in their hands, their readers will choose to be obnoxious bastards to others.
No soup for you!