Wednesday, May 11, 2005

The McPaper

i was in a hotel in lebanon , nj (off all places) and i got a complimentary 'usa today'.
who actually reads this? they should leave the pictures as just outlines of the people and give out crayons so you can color them in.
i was reading a front page story about tom ridge and the color alert system and i finished the column and was ready to continue the story. i was like where's the little line that tells you what page to turn to, then i realized it wasn't there b/c that was it. what? you'd think a national newspaper would have a bit more to say about a former adminisitration official who was in charge of homeland security that was saying the administration was overusing the terror warning. nope, two paragraphs, that about sums it up.
and the ridge, thing, i guess no one's really shocked about bush overusing the terror warning - it did seem to go up and convenient times for dubya during the election and all. i'm interested to learn more b/c i don't know shit b/c i read about it in the sesame street times.

3 comments:

Max said...

Last summer when Lisa and I went to Arizona we got the USA Today delivered to our hotel rooms as well. I had a similar reaction.

The USA Today is, in my opinion

a) very right-wing slanted and
b) written about a 2nd grade reading level
c) as you said, extremely banal

Is there a connection from (a) to (b) and (c)? :)

Anonymous said...

Hey,
I read USA Today

Anonymous said...

To Julia S.,

What, what, what are you saying? What are you saying?