In early December, Newsday decided to suspend its failing paywall strategy and free up its content as part of a Radio City Musical sponsorship that ran until the first few days of January. I’m no expert, but based on these figures from Alexa, they may want to reconsider.
The “rape-rap nix” is neither a new dance move nor a form of anti-rape hip-hop—it’s simply the latest in headline magic by those alliteration alchemists at the New York Post, makers of the sext blitz (seen here), Surrender Monkeys, STAB BABY, and other catchy phrases. Read more »
The New York Post‘s circulation has dropped 30% and it’s getting murdered by it’s dreaded rival, the New York Daily News, in online readership. Certainly Rupert Murdoch’s increasingly retarded web strategy won’t help to change that.|New York Times|
There are many reasons why the New Orleans Times Picayune is a great newspaper, and this is one of them: the paper’s website, Nola.com, has this “Your Photos” function where visitors to the site can upload their own pictures onto the website. And it appears as though this nice young lady, with the assistance of a cop no less, decided to mount a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Department cruiser and share her photos with the Times Pic’s readership. Read more »
Nowadays, print media is purposeful for everything but reading or selling ads. Take this “Laptop Case for Macbook Pro Against Crime.” It uses newspapers as a clever disguise to guard against would be thieves. You can buy one for $85 or go the more frugal DIY route: hit a newsstand, save $84. |DVICE|
When Toronto-based street artist Posterchild found some disused newspaper dispensers, he filled them with flowers. Less creative White Plains commuters just filled an abandoned Metro newspaper dispenser with trash. And once it couldn’t hold any more of their garbage, they jacked open the top so they could continue not using the trash bin just 25 feet away. As part of her daily commute, Greenpoint blogger Bitch Cakes monitored the disgusting development for more than a month until it was finally cleaned up.
Photos by Bitch Cakes
When cops die they get the bagpipes, for soldiers it’s the playing of Taps, but when it comes to media types like Tim Russert—who once got both Bush and Kerry to admit their secret society shadiness—it’s the whole gambit. Although the official wake isn’t till tomorrow, the Meet the Press host and venerated-like-Jesus media man has already received a hero’s tribute that included flags ordered to half mast in Buffalo, plans to rename strips of road after him, and marathon MSNBC coverage this past weekend, as well as numerous memorials across other networks. And then there was the newspapers. Hundreds of them ran Tim Russert tributes, but only a few dozen were honorable enough to place the news juggernaut on the cover, above the fold, or fused with the masthead altogether. ANIMAL assembled a collection of the best tree killers that paid tribute to what some decry as a staunch leftist in disguise.
Since counting the ad pages takes way too long, why not provide the next best measurement of success: weight. Afterall, many a fashion magazine are ritually weighed (although traditionally in the Fall), so why not take that trend to NYC’s freebies.
Come ROAR and see who’s the Heavyweight winner in today’s match up.
Editor-in-Chief:
