Newspaper Nicknames: The Good, the Bad and the Scatological (FR Mentioned)

Poynter Online ^ | October 28, 2003 | Chip Scanlon

[Recovering_Democrat]

oops. you had comPOST. sorry.

[discostu]

I call both the newspapers in Tucson "the movie times" since that's all they're good for, and now with the internet they really aren't good for that either.

[Constitution Day]

Raleigh [NC] News and Disturber, a.k.a. Raleigh Views and Distorter...

The Rocky Mount, NC newspaper, the Telegram, is still called the Tell-A-Lie by some here. ;)

[Dan from Michigan]

Where do I begin?

NY Slimes
NY Crimes
LA Slimes
Detroit unFree Press
Statist News(MSU's paper)
Snooze(MSU's paper)
Flint Urinal
Lansing Statist Journal
Lansing State Urinal
Traverse City Wretched Eagle

Red Star Tribune
Sickago Tribune

I can't think of a good one offhand though for my local leftist rag. The Livingston County Daily Press and Argus. It's owned by a bigtime dem from out of county, whose a former U-M Board of Regent.

[mrs. a]

I thought it was the Orlando Scent-Anal

[Dan from Michigan]

Washington Postal.

[Xenalyte]

Houston Comical, and or Houston Barnacle.

[ArrogantBustard]

CNN = Communist News Network

NBC = National Bull C!@#

ABC = All Bull C!@#

CBS = See, BS

[IYAS9YAS]

The Idaho Mis-Statesman.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Well, that would be the Minneapolis Red-Star Tribune. But close. There used to be a Minneapolis Star evening paper but I don't remember if it was as flatulantly liberal as the modern-day version.

[AmishDude]

Pittsburgh Putz-Gazette

[pro libertate]

We've got the Santa Rosa Depressed Democrat. (Press Democrat)

San Francisco Comical
San Jose Murky News

[E Rocc]

NBC = National Bull C!@#

You can spell out the word "clinton" here.

-Eric

[bobjam]

The Gainesville (Fla) Mullet Wrapper instead of the Sun. UF's student newspaper, the Florida Alligator, is often referred to as the Agitator. Jacksonville's free liberal weekly, Folio Weekly, can often be referred to as "Full-of-It Weekly"

[cryptical]

I've heard it called Minneapolis Star & Sickle, and the Pioneer Press was the Prairie Pravda.

[prairiebreeze]

Chicago Fibune

[CFC__VRWC]

I thought it was the Orlando Scent-Anal

I've always called it the Slantinel.

Seriesly, though, how could he have missed the Atlanta Urinal-Constipation?

[kaktuskid]

Arizona Repulsive/Repugnant/CRAPublic

[Arrowhead1952]

"Austin American Statesboy"

We call ours The Austin Real-Estatesman.

I call it,

The Austin Un-American Liberal Non-Statesman