[bvw]

You're a radio guy. You know what signal to noise ratio is. You know that the discriminator circuitry is different for channels with high Q than low Q.

Understand ... the Enquirer is read by people who understand what the usual signal to noise ratio is in it. And so is the New York Times. One low Q the other high Q. The readership's discriminator functions have been established.

Now. If a person wants to get a false signal through, which is the better channel?

[ScreamingFist]

"The readership's discriminator functions have been established."

Actually, I would think a comparison to filters rather than dicriminators would be more appropriate. The NY Times uses some serious band pass filtering, while the Enquirer uses low pass filtering.