Is Your Newspaper America's Worst?

Powerline Blog ^ | 11/20/06 | John Hinderaker

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Scott (Johnson) recently suggested that the Minneapolis Star Tribune may be America's worst newspaper. That produced lots of emails from readers who nominated their own newspapers, or others with which they are familiar, for the honor. This gave us the idea for a new poll: What is the worst newspaper in the United States?

Here are the nominees, with commentary by those who nominated them:

The Minneapolis Star Tribune: Nominated by Scott, citing Mark Steyn: “Unreadable sludge.”

The Houston Chronicle: A reader who worked for the Chronicle for “quite a while”: “Its main problem is not even its liberalism, which it suffers from, but its vapidity. On top of that, the editor from Hearst Corp. is trying to teach Houstonians how to be proper liberals. The fact that no one ever hears about the newspaper at America’s fourth largest city should tell you a lot.”

The Olympian (Olympia, Washington): MHJ: “From their editorial about how good it is that the Governor is going to direct the employees of the State Department of Transportation to cooperate with the State Auditor on taxpayer-directed performance audits, to their choice of letters to the editor, the Olympian begs for an editorial staff with common sense and analytical skills.”

[Ouderkirk]

The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle......a Gannett owned producer of unreadable sludge

[rabscuttle385]

There is a reason why I subscribe to The Washington Times and not The Washington Post.

[Goldie Lurks]

The NYT's evil twin...The LA Times.

[GraceCoolidge]

Yet somehow The Family Circus continues to survive?

I would rate The Family Circus as Hemingway compared to one of our offerings: "Rose is Rose." But the absolute worst is a one panel comic, "Hazel." It is an abomination. I think it is the comic strip that the TV show may have been based upon, and I don't think the humor or settings have been updated since the TV show aired. You can practically smell the mothballs when you read it.

[DManA]

Do you suppose a "Name a good newspaper" thread would get 124 responses?

[x_plus_one]

Kansas City Red Star

"As colorful as USA Today, As moronic as the New York Times"

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Do you suppose a "Name a good newspaper" thread would get 124 responses?

.....and 1700 views???

[Clintons Are White Trash]

Absolutely - the St. Louis Post Disgrace is horrible. I happily tell their salespeople I refuse to read the liberal drivel.

[GraceCoolidge]

I usually go straight to the Workers World website and skip the Bees slower load times for the same info.

I am so enjoying this thread! By the end of your post, I had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard.

[Osage Orange]

Add the Tulsa Squirrel to the list.........

[knews_hound]

Don't forget to tip your waiter....

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Thanks to all for your participation on this thread. I expected a handful of replies and a couple dozen views. I guess this issue is more important than I imagined.

Thanks to the Powerline Blog for yet another great topic.

And thanks to the Admin Mod for leaving this in News/Activism, even though it belonged in Bloggers/etc. which I realized as soon as I hit the post button.....

[knews_hound]

If abb hits his ping list with this , watch it really take off...

Cheers,

knewshound

[Ramcat]

I didn't read through the entire post yet but I'll add the Pittsburgh Post Gazette to the list of others who agree.
They can't even give it away.

[IronJack]

There's always the Slimes, of course, be it the LA variety or the flagship of the mothball fleet, the NY wrapper.

But for sheer ineptitude, the Red Star Tribune DOES rate right up there. Just like Minneapolis is a tawdry imitation of the Big Apple, so the Star-Trib is a shallow epigone of the horrid New York Times. Only it doesn't even do the propaganda well.

And the ink smears all over your butt when you put it to its only valid purpose ...

[Uriah_lost]

If I could just get them to stop littering my front steps with their "free" Journal garbage....and I have tried....a lot!

[Doe Eyes]

I guess the Austin (un)American Spaceman didn't make the list. It could'a been a contender.

Paper's Endorsement of Bush Causes Outrage

[teawithmisswilliams]

the Strib is also horrendous, and they haven't been capitalizing "God" for a couple of years at least (saw it back home for a visit).

[seekthetruth]

"Allmost forgot that other FL.jewel-the st. pete times."

We gave up the St.Pete Pravda several years ago, and went to the Tampa Tribune which became too hard to take also! Quit it too!

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

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