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Letterman Top 10's the NY Times Again!
CBS Late Show ^ | June 4, 2003 | Dave Letterman

Posted on 06/04/2003 10:10:37 PM PDT by tvn

Dave Letterman's Top 10-

Top Ten Things Agreed Upon at the G8 Summit

2. The summit's in France, which means "The New York Times" reporter is probably in Brooklyn

(Excerpt) Read more at cbs.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: daveletterman; nytimes
The Times jokes keep coming, and---

The search continues for new NY Times slogan-

The Top 10:

1) All the News That We See Fit to Print

2) Some News, Some Fiction, You Figure It Out

3) All The News We Can Make Up or Steal

4) We Can Fool All of the People Some of the Time- That’s Enough for Us

5) What’s The Big Deal, It’s Not Like We Committed A Crime

6) You Want To Be Sure, Check With the Christian Science Monitor or Washington Post

7) "If They're So Smart, Why Didn't The Catch Me?" Jayson Blair, May 2003

8) Even the Stuff We Make Up Is Better Than Any Other Paper

9) Pretending To Send More Reporters To Cover More Stories Than Any Other Newspaper in the World

10) Countering the Country’s Conservative Course

The full list of 150 entries proposed so far:

1) ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT--NOT

2) LOTS OF NEWS THAT'S NOT FIT TO PRINT

3) ALL THE NEWS WE PRINT ISN'T FIT

4) All Our Views That's News to Print

5) All the News That We See Fit to Print

6) All the News As We See It

7) All the News, Fact or Better, Fiction

8) All the News, Well At Least Almost

9) All the News That We Can Dream Up

10) All The News We Can Crib From Others

11) Some News, Some Fiction, You Figure It Out

12) All The News We Can Make Up or Steal

13) All the News That's Fit to Print and Is Cleared by Our Lawyers

14) Lots of News We've Stolen From Other Papers

15) All the News Fit for a Plagiarist

16) All News Only a Plagiarist Can Love

17) All The News, Just Don't Check the Sources

18) All the News, Trust Us--Honest

19) Changing Fiction To Fact

20) All News, No Credibility

21) All the Lies Fit to Print.

22) Face it, We Just Like to Print!

23) Aside from the pervasive Marxist bias, multitudinous errors and mis-information, and Anti-capitalist/anti-American posturing, we ain’t that bad!"

24) "All The News That Fits Our Views."

25) All The News That’s Fit to Print, Except For the Stuff We Make Up

26) All the News And Then the Part We Make Up

27) Some Facts, the Rest Fiction

28) Reporting Fiction Stranger than Fact 29) Reporting Facts And Stranger Fiction

30) When It's Raines, It Bores

31) All the News Cribbed to Fit

32) Just the Facts and Some Fiction Thrown In

33) Some News, Some Fiction, You Figure It Out

34) We Can Fool All of the People Some of the Time- That’s Enough for Us

35) The Blair Filch Project

36) Nothing But the Truth (Except for the Part We Make Up)

37) Leading Nominee for Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

38) A Lie Told Often Enough Becomes Fact in the Times

39) Truth is Truth, Except in the New York Times

40) Transforming Lies into Truth

41) Weaving A Tangled Web to Deceive

42) When the Going Gets Tough, The Times Makes It Up

43) Give Us A Dollar, And We’ll Give You The World-- As We See It

44) The New York Times- We Try Harder, Then We Make It Up.

45) The New York Times, The Ultimate Lying Machine

46) When the News Absolutely, Positively Has to be Reported, We Make It Up.

47) We Answer to the Highest Authority- Ourselves

48) New York Times- Do They or Don’t They?

49) Hey, We All Make Mistakes

50) We Admit--When You’re Wrong, You’re Wrong

51) We Really Messed Up

52) We’re Really, Really Sorry—Honest

53) We Rarely Make Mistakes, But When We Do, They Tend To Be Lulus

54) What’s The Big Deal- We Usually Get It Right

55) Remember, The Washington Post Makes Mistakes Too

56) If You Don’t Believe Us- You Can Check The Facts on Google

57) We’ll Get It Right Yet

58) The Internet’s Replacing the Printed Press Anyway

59) What’s The Big Deal, It’s Not Like We Committed A Crime 60) What's the Big Deal- News Stories Are Like Subways—There’s A New One Arriving Every Few Minutes

61) We’ve Replaced the 5 W’s (Who, What, When, Where, Why) With the 5P’s (Pontificate, Proselytize, Persuade, Prevaricate, Persecute) and the 5 D’s ( Defraud, Distort, Deceive, Denounce, Dissemble)

62) When In Doubt, We Make It Up

63) Newspaper of Broken Record

64) All the News—And Then the Raines Came

65) Ethics—Who Needs “Em

66) We Have Nothing To Fear But -- Truth Itself

67) When the News Breaks, We “Fix” It

68) New York, New York, It’s A Wonderful Town—Just Don’t Rely on the Times

69) The New York Times would like to retract the following statement: "All The News That's Fit To Print" We have determined that this has been a daily lie for some time now, and we are diligently investigating how we can pin it all on Jason Blair. We appreciate your forbearance in this matter.

70) All the News That's Fit to Print, More or Less

71) "We decide, we report"

72) Maybe It’s True, Maybe it isn’t

73) Gray Lady down—and on her way out

74) We Always Knew What Was Fit To Print—Now We’re Really Not Sure

75) Neither Raines, Nor Sleet, Nor Dead Of Night Will Keep Us From Delivering Our Version of News

76) Raines’ Flops Keep Befalling On Our Headlines

77) Howell Raines’ Disdain Befalls Mainly Those in the Main

78) New York, New York- If We Can Make It Up There, We Can Make It Up Any Where

79) You Want To Be Sure, Check With the Christian Science Monitor

80) We Have To Find Some Way To Keep Our Circulation Up

81) All the news that fits....half is lies, the other half we made up.

82) All the new that's fit to print....(>>> anagram >>>).... That's it, then all profits went

83) All the news that's printed to fit our agenda

84) New York Times - The Novel .

85) All the News That’s Fit to Print- We triple guarantee it. There are no communists at the Times

86) We distort, you decide!

87) “Stuff We Heard From A Guy Who Says His Friend Heard About It"

88) Remember, Jayson Blair Got His Job Through the New York Times

89) The New York Times: Where Pinch Is Out To Lunch

90) Pinch- First Against the War, First Against the Peace, First in not axing lax newsmen

91) New York Times: Where Truth Takes A Holiday

92) New York Times: Where Affimative Action Begins and Proper Editing Ends

93) "If They're So Smart, Why Didn't The Catch Me?" Jayson Blair, May 2003

94) We Check It Twice, But Often Fail To Find Who's Naughty or Nice

95) Any More Screwups Like Blair And We Promise We'll Carry Cartoons

96) Pulp Fiction

97) We are lying (this time we are telling the truth)

98) Facts...Schmacts

99) A lot of words we figure we can print"

100) LIAR, LIAR, PRINT'S ON FIRE.

101) Call Us With A Tip, We’ll Make Up the Rest

102) All the news that's fixed to print.

103) All The News That Fits, We Print.

104) Covering the World From 44th Street and Broadway

105) Rewriting News From Across The Globe

106) Even the Stuff We Make Up Is Better Than Any Other Paper

107) We Never Let the Truth Stand Between the Times And a Good Story

108) Hey, At Least We Got The Truman-Dewey Election Right

109) We Know What Our Readers Want—So We Just Make It Up

110) We’re the World’s Largest Newspaper- We Can’t Make Everything Up

111) Research Shows Our Readers Usually Rate Our Made Up Articles Higher that The Real Stories Any Way

112) That's Newsertainment!

113) Pinch's Fiction

114) Darkest Ink In the Business

115) You Sayin' We're Liars?

116) We Prefer To Think Of It As "Reality Journalism"

117) More Than Equal Opportunity Employer

118) Ignore The Phony Reporting - Check out Those Hooters In Our Macy's Underwear Ads!

119) Thriftiest Traveling Reporters Anywhere

120) Printed On Real Paper Made From Actual Trees- Only Our News Is Recycled

121) Now 50% More Absorbent

122) Soy-Based Inks - Won't Spoil Flavor Of Your Fish!

123) So What If We Lie A Lot - We're From New York

124) Fact-checking? Why bother!

125) Ample Free Parking In Employee Garage

126) Pretending To Send More Reporters To Cover More Stories Than Any Other Newspaper in the World

127) Countering the Country’s Conservative Course

128) We Know What’s Right—Trust Us!

129) When Better Stories Are Reported, the Times Will Make Them Up

130) Us Lie? Never!

131) NY Times : Merging Facts and Opinion

132) Where Reporters Interpret the News

133) Once The Newspaper of Record

134) Please Believe Us

135) Reporting What We Think You Should Know

136) The New York Times Knows Best

137) Home of the Anonymous Source

138) In New York, Everyone Reads the Times—They Just Can’t Trust It

139) Where Today’s Scoops Become Tomorrow’s Retractions

140) We Get It Right, Or At Least Close

141) The Times they are a changin' - changin' the facts, that is!

142) When The Enquirer misses the mark....Turn to the NYTimes.

143) If it's beyond belief, you're reading the NYTimes.

144) Where Reporters'Opinions Count

145) New York's Leading Newspaper- We Drove All Our Competitors Out of Business

146) We Fired Our Fact Checkers Years Ago

147) Slanting The News THe Way We Like It

148) The Truth, The Whole Truth And Nothing But the Truth, Well Not Really

149) Reporting Opinion As Fact

150) We Know What You Should Know

Also--- Motto on Jayson Blair's Desk- The Lies Start Here

Motto on Rick Bragg’s Desk: I Never Met A Stringer I Didn’t Like

Motto on Howell Raines' Desk: (1) Don't Bother Me With The Truth, I Have A Paper To Run! (2) That’s Close Enough

Motto of the Washington Bureau: The Screw Ups Always Come Out of New York

Motto of the NY Staff: None of This Would Have Happened If Gore Had Won Florida

Motto on Pinch Sulzberger's Desk: (1) The Buck Passes By Here (2) I Got My Job By Inheriting The New York Times

1 posted on 06/04/2003 10:10:38 PM PDT by tvn
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To: tvn
TOO FUNNY TVN rack itt LOLOLOL!!!

That is very funny rack Letterman he been picking on NY TIMES Lately I THINK
2 posted on 06/04/2003 10:28:01 PM PDT by SevenofNine (Not everybody in it for truth, justice, and the American way=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: tvn
All the News that's Fit to Print... according to our bias
3 posted on 06/04/2003 10:41:21 PM PDT by El Conservador ("No blood for oil!"... Then don't drive, you moron!!!)
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To: tvn
Last week when he did this, his #3 sign that things are going badly at the Times was something like:

Former slogan 'All the News That's Fit to Print' replaced with the trendy 'Don't Go There Girlfriend'

4 posted on 06/04/2003 10:50:17 PM PDT by RLJVet
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