September 3, 2011 - 9:36 am
The Tatler’s eyes are everywhere. Check out this photo snapped Friday by one of our own:
You may find some use at Tatler for this and the next photo I will send…The attached was just taken at Union Station in DC. The New York Times is giving away free umbrellas and tote bags to anyone who will subscribe. Note prices were also half off. There was no noticable interest in the time I spent in the area.
If you see amusing scenes like this one, snap a shot and send it to us.
One of the only reasons the NYT is alive today is because of financial bailout from Mexican billionaire Slim. A private-jet-owining billionaire. Not sure if NYT got some of the secret loan money from taxpayers that Obama was handing out a couple years ago as well, but they probably did.
May they rot. Gray Lady OUT.
Hey Bryan, maybe the New York Times wouldn’t have to resort to umbrella and tote bag giveaways (and 50 percent off) if they did the work Pajamas was doing on the Every Single One series.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/every-single-one-the-politicized-hiring-of-eric-holders-disability-rights-section/?singlepage=true
Instead, their version of the same story turned the New York Times into a mouthpiece for the Government. How the mighty have fallen.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/01/us/politics/01rights.html?_r=1
Bird owners needed cage lining should rush to this free umbrella offer.
I would beg to differ. Consider how they downplayed the reporting of the Nazi Holocaust at the time it was happening I’d say they were never as good as they claim.
“Bird owners needed cage lining should rush to this free umbrella offer.”
My parrot refuses to allow NYT in his cage, even if all he does is build poop-sculptures on the masthead. He does have a sense of the fitness of things, after all…
When ‘give-a-ways’ aren’t taken and you return with what you took – that’s a sign that what you’re dishing out – has been to long on the hook.
So you lost your ability to offer up convincing lies – and people don’t want your BS anymore – take the quiet rejection and savor it my friend – it beats the hell out of being beaten and dragged through the streets – wearing a torn and blood stained ‘Times Is Ripe’ T shirt.
When give-a-ways aren’t taken and you return with what you took – that’s a sign that what you’re dishing out – has been to long on the hook.
So you lost your ability to offer up convincing lies – and people don’t want your BS anymore – take the quiet rejection and savor it my friend – it beats the hell out of being beaten and dragged through the streets – wearing a torn and blood stained ‘Times Is Ripe’ T shirt.
I really thought that was pretty good. Ogden Nash would be envious.
Old and busted.
Not impressed.
The only way this could cause me to worry for the NY Times’ future is if it was also raining cats and dogs at the time this photo was snapped. Now THAT would be pitiful.
But as it is, failing to give away free tote bags and free umbrellas, that only puts the NY Times at the level of KMart, maybe, with the Blue Light Specials.
Ten ways print media are better than digital. You can:
1. Wrap fish
2. Line birdcages
3. Protect surfaces from drips and splatters during home painting projects
4. Use newsprint pages under a layer of mulch to control weeds in the garden
5. Make inexpensive papier mache objects with your kids
6. Make pirate hats for impromptu pirate battles
7. Wrap glassware for storage or a move
8. Use it to start a fire
9. Paper-train a puppy
10. Blot up accidents from said paper-trained pup
Reader Alert: Do NOT use digital media in lieu of print. Results may be unsatisfactory (understatement of the century) and costly to fix.
My cats won’t even pee on it if the masthead is showing.
It’s puzzling that the NYT is falling by the wayside, yet those holding the purse strings don’t seem to be analyzing the cause of failure. That is probably the clue to their demise, because a real business is always self-examining for improvement. As for TV, the same thing is occurring. I’ve never seen a poll asking why people do or don’t watch.
Free umbrellas and tote bags? Sounds like PBS (Putrid Bull Sheet.)
All the fiction that’s fits our views, that’s what we print.
Hey…I pop out there to have a smoke before I change trains!
One of the reasons I like that portico is that there are no cigarette-butt urns from which the homeless bums salvage butts and smoke.
Effin’ nasty what a “smoke jones” and $10.00 a pack cigarettes will do to you.
Thanks, Progressive LibTards! The people who need to be institutionalized and on Thorazine can’t even afford a “pulmonary Slim-Jim” to keep the monkeys off their back without stooping to the level of brushing their teeth in a public urinal.
Hope some of my “U Station” kook-peeps availed themselves of some strack new umbrellas when the NYT thrall went to the john…
The NYT is facing an intrinsic problem, the readers have to be intelligent enough to understand what they are saying and ignorant enough to believe it.
Are those T-shirts folded on the table as well?
That would make sense…since at the NYTimes the truth, integrity, honesty and patriotism are in the middle of a shirt storm with no umbrella.
Actually the tote bag would make a great creel for when I go fishing.
Interesting that the umbrella features the crossword puzzle ~ perhaps the only reason it’s subscription level hasn’t totally tanked.
I’d be embarrassed to carry around an item indicating that I have subscribed to the New York Slimes. Not that I would read that rag in the first place!