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not so bad...
Posted by
Chris Jacobs
10/30/2003 2:25:41 PM
Well, I currently work for the News-Disgrace (News-Dispatch) but I previously worked for the Hairy-Anus (Herald-Argus) so... being the News-Disgr...
Well, I currently work for the News-Disgrace (News-Dispatch) but I previously worked for the Hairy-Anus (Herald-Argus) so... being the News-Disgrace doesn't seem so bad... :-)
more Canucklehead nicknames
Posted by
Justin Smallbridge
10/30/2003 2:18:26 PM
The Canadian Broadcorping Castration (The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
The network's circular logo was known to directors and graphics p...
The Canadian Broadcorping Castration (The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
The network's circular logo was known to directors and graphics people as either "the pizza" or "the exploding a**hole".
Snoozeworld (CBC Newsworld, all-news cable channel), also, Wallyworld (thanks to a combination of Canucklehead satirical biweekly Frank Magazine and, of course, National Lampoon's Vacation).
Check www.frankmagazine.com's Remedial media column for the Frank parade of media property nicknames (e.g., The Globe and Minion, The National Putz, etc., etc., etc.)
The Gerbil Television Network (Global Television Network)
The Daily Insufficient
Posted by
Melanie Lloyd
10/30/2003 1:38:32 PM
Right out of college I worked for a paper in the small town of Ridgecrest, California. The official name of the paper is The Daily...
Right out of college I worked for a paper in the small town of Ridgecrest, California. The official name of the paper is The Daily Independent. But due to a lack of editorial skills and many other problems, the name soon became The Daily Insufficient or The Daily Inefficient. I believe those names still apply today, from what I have heard.
Fish wrap nicknames
Posted by
Eric Shows
10/30/2003 1:08:50 PM
The Daily Chokelahoman (The Daily Oklahoman)
The Daily Chokelahoman (The Daily Oklahoman)
TX nicknames
Posted by
Dave Einsel
10/30/2003 1:08:25 PM
Abilene Distorter (Reporter) - News
Houston Comical (Chronicle)
It seems Comical and Snooze are pretty common monikers.
Abilene Distorter (Reporter) - News
Houston Comical (Chronicle)
It seems Comical and Snooze are pretty common monikers.
News Makes Names
Posted by
Mike trimble
10/30/2003 12:13:02 PM
From my home state: The Arkansas Democrat was sometimes called the Arkansas Demagogue by its critics. The liberal Arkansas Gazette was called "Th...
From my home state: The Arkansas Democrat was sometimes called the Arkansas Demagogue by its critics. The liberal Arkansas Gazette was called "The old red harlot on Third Street."
The Daily Independent in Newport was called the Daily Disappointment.
Here in Texas, my paper is sometimes called the Denton Wretched-Chronicle by its detractors
nicknames
Posted by
Kathleen L'Ecluse
10/30/2003 12:09:30 PM
Our paper, the Daily Republic, is sometimes known as the Daily Repulsive, although less so lately. Our competition, the Vacaville Reporter, has t...
Our paper, the Daily Republic, is sometimes known as the Daily Repulsive, although less so lately. Our competition, the Vacaville Reporter, has two such names – the Vacaville Distorter and the Vacaville Repeater.
Substandard-Exaggerator
Posted by
Mike Cote
10/30/2003 12:04:04 PM
I've yet to hear a disparaging name for the Daily Camera -- though I don't doubt our readers have come up with one (Daily Spamera?)....
I've yet to hear a disparaging name for the Daily Camera -- though I don't doubt our readers have come up with one (Daily Spamera?).
But I have colleagues who say they worked for the Deland Blues in Florida(Deland News) and the Substandard-Exaggerator in Utah (Standard-Examiner).
the Lubbock Landslide
Posted by
Deann Alford
10/30/2003 12:01:31 PM
...formally known as the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
--deann
...formally known as the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
--deann
Another from Philadelphia
Posted by
D.F. Manno
10/30/2003 11:42:09 AM
The Philadelphia Daily News is known by some Philadelphians as the Dirty News.
The Philadelphia Daily News is known by some Philadelphians as the Dirty News.
For a little geographical diversity...
Posted by
Sallie Owen
10/30/2003 11:32:14 AM
My first job out of college was at the Alexander City (AL) Outlook, which is sometimes called the Lookout. Incidentally, the Outlook actually pu...
My first job out of college was at the Alexander City (AL) Outlook, which is sometimes called the Lookout. Incidentally, the Outlook actually publishes a summer weekly for the nearby lake community called The Fishwrapper.
My other career stops have included the Montgomery (AL) Advertiser/Antagonizer and the Mobile (AL) Register/Cash Register.
A few determinedly political correct folks tried to call my college paper, The Auburn Plainsman, The Auburn Plainsperson
Another good one from Alabama is the Red Star aka the Anniston Star, which is notoriously liberal on its editorial page
There are so many
Posted by
Bob LeDrew
10/30/2003 11:26:12 AM
Here in Canada:
The Ottawa Petfinder
The Grope and Flail, Mop and Pail, Mope and Wail (Globe and Mail)
The Daily Snooze (Halifax)
The Comi...
Here in Canada:
The Ottawa Petfinder
The Grope and Flail, Mop and Pail, Mope and Wail (Globe and Mail)
The Daily Snooze (Halifax)
The Comical Horrible, Chronically-Horrid (Halifax Chronicle Herald)
The Freep (Winnipeg Free Press)
My favorite newspaper nicknames
Posted by
Marc Botts
10/30/2003 11:20:18 AM
I've always been fond of calling our big daily The Curious-Journal instesad of The (Louisville) Courier-Journal. I try to control my base impuls...
I've always been fond of calling our big daily The Curious-Journal instesad of The (Louisville) Courier-Journal. I try to control my base impulses to call it The Curious-Urinal because that would be, well, crude.
When I was a reporter for The (New Albany, Ind.) Tribune, we nicknamed our competitor The Evening Snooze instead of The (Jeffersonville, Ind.) Evening News.
Nickname
Posted by
Joel Lundstad
10/30/2003 11:18:59 AM
"The Daily Intercourse" - was the more popular name for "The Daily Inter Lake" in Kalispell MT where I grew up.
"The Daily Intercourse" - was the more popular name for "The Daily Inter Lake" in Kalispell MT where I grew up.
Daily Distorter
Posted by
Beth Hershberger
10/30/2003 11:17:00 AM
My first job out of college was at the Daily Reporter in Derby, Kan., AKA Daily Distorter.
My first job out of college was at the Daily Reporter in Derby, Kan., AKA Daily Distorter.
newspaper nicknames
Posted by
Nancy Lofholm
10/30/2003 11:09:29 AM
The Daily Senile for The Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction, Co.
The Montrose Daily Depress for the Montrose, Co. Daily Press
The Daily Senile for The Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction, Co.
The Montrose Daily Depress for the Montrose, Co. Daily Press
Senile for Sentinel
Posted by
Betsy Marston
10/30/2003 10:49:02 AM
for Grand Junction (Colo.) Daily Sentinel
for Grand Junction (Colo.) Daily Sentinel
The Scum News
Posted by
Becky Billingsley
10/30/2003 9:58:47 AM
The Knight Ridder Daily in Myrtle Beach, The Sun News, is known to locals as The Scum News.
The Knight Ridder Daily in Myrtle Beach, The Sun News, is known to locals as The Scum News.
Nicknames I have known
Posted by
Pierce Presley
10/30/2003 12:37:31 AM
My college paper, The (Loyola U. New Orleans) Maroon was frequently called the Moron by those less enchanted with it than the staff.
I worked...
My college paper, The (Loyola U. New Orleans) Maroon was frequently called the Moron by those less enchanted with it than the staff.
I worked at the Benton County (Ark.) Daily Record which has been referred to by the moniker "Daily Retard."
My wife might not have been original when she referred to the AP as the PP, but I haven't really heard of any nicknames for it. But it makes up for it with its red-light internal jargon--it's a shame the late night broadcast trick isn't nearly as fun as it sounds.
Finally, my personal favorite perjoritive isn't a newspaper's; a nurse practioner I know works for Baptist Medical Center. Her husband calls it the Big BM.
Two from Philadelphia
Posted by
D.F. Manno
10/29/2003 11:52:49 PM
My college daily, the Daily Pennsylvanian or DP, was occasionally called the Dip.
The Catholic archdiocesan paper in Philadelphia, the Catholi...
My college daily, the Daily Pennsylvanian or DP, was occasionally called the Dip.
The Catholic archdiocesan paper in Philadelphia, the Catholic Standard and Times, was known by some as the "Below Standard and Behind the Times."
D.F. Manno
Urinal Genital
Posted by
super Crazy
10/29/2003 10:00:55 PM
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel?
More like Milwaukee Urinal Genital.
At least that's what my newspaper-assembling friends said in high school.
Are...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel?
More like Milwaukee Urinal Genital.
At least that's what my newspaper-assembling friends said in high school.
Are there any good ones for the University of Minnesota's student paper, the Minnesota Daily?
Shouldn't there be an obvious one? I think so.
Nickname
Posted by
rev baker
10/29/2003 8:38:51 PM
The Raleigh 'Blues & Disturber'
The Raleigh 'Blues & Disturber'
Nasty names
Posted by
Jason Dewees
10/29/2003 8:35:29 PM
We read it every day and we call it the San Francisco Comical. That was Herb Caen's name for it, too, I think.
We read it every day and we call it the San Francisco Comical. That was Herb Caen's name for it, too, I think.
las vegas review-journal
Posted by
joyce lupiani
10/29/2003 7:43:19 PM
a local politican who is rather upset with us (the las vegas review-journal) called us last week the las vegas redneck journal
i think that...
a local politican who is rather upset with us (the las vegas review-journal) called us last week the las vegas redneck journal
i think that one might stick
Also a Shitizen alumni
Posted by
Charlotte Libov
10/29/2003 4:28:08 PM
Since I started out at the Milford Shitizen as well, I was certainly chuckled at Chip's lead. Of course, the Shitizen, as with other papers...
Since I started out at the Milford Shitizen as well, I was certainly chuckled at Chip's lead. Of course, the Shitizen, as with other papers I've worked, now have a more unfortunate nickname attached to them - "defunct" as in, "the now-defunct Milford Shitizen" (along with the now-defunct Springfield (Mass. Daily Snooze) where I also toiled.
Charlotte Libov
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