Archive for the ‘amNY Watch’ Category
Monday, June 9th, 2008
This morning, I saw an MTA employee stationed out on the corner of 14th and 1st with a giant garbage can and a stack of copies of today's amNewYork. He had just put down a huge batch of papers on the sidewalk and picked up a fresh stack when I came up from ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Yesterday's amNewYork proves that the paper has a clear anti-communist stance.
It must be North Korea! Why would a freedom-loving country kill millions of birds? It was probably a Freudian slip. Someone at amNewYork must equate death with North Korea. And who can really blame them?
Amazingly, it appears that amNewYork is getting better ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
From an interview with Janeane Garofolo in last Thursday's amNewYork:
Really? I thought she was talking about Cynthia Nixon. I knew that Sex in the City was part of a vast right-wing conspiracy! And Ronald Reagan? I thought she meant John Henninger Reagan, the former Postmaster General of the Confederacy. That guy was always an ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Thanks to a number of readers for pointing out this example of unnecessary quotation marks in yesterday's amNewYork:
I thought that amNewYork was about to break the news of more juicy Spitzer sex details. Regardless of whether or not I really wanted to know more about Spitzer's taint, the article doesn't tell me more. It doesn't ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
amNewYork has run a god-awful "Happy Hour" section every Tuesday that lists four marginally-good to completely-douchey bars in a neighborhood and their happy hour deals. They've managed to screw this feature up before, but now they're just phoning it in:
And what are those "cheap drinks?" Well, the "special" on Killarney Rose's ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Here's a review of HBO's John Adams that ran in today's amNewYork:
Yeah, um, crack that textbook again, because John Adams was our nation's second president. You know how you could find that out? Go to Wikipedia and type "John Adams." Here's the first line:
John Adams, Jr. (October 30, 1735 – ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
A lot of people ask me why I'm so hard on amNewYork. They must think I have a personal grudge against someone there or, perhaps, they slighted me after I applied for a job there. The bottom line is simple: I just think this paper would be better run by ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Ever since the Iowa Caucuses, I've rolled my eyes when amNewYork claims that the results of political primaries were "too late." Apparently, amNewYork keeps the schedule of an old lady (but not the old gray lady, obviously) and has to go to bed before 9pm.
But wait! An INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT NEWS STORY took ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Great job on the headline on page 28 of today's amNewYork:
Seriously, how do they miss these mistakes? Do they have a spiteful copy editor who wants me to make this a daily feature?
Flashback: amNY Watch: Don't Leave Me Hangin! (11/2/06)
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
On their amInsider page today, amNewYork had a guide to happy hours in the East Village.
If this place is in the East Village, I must live in the Financial District. amNewYork, how dare you suggest that this bar is in my neighborhood! It gives the East Village a bad name!
Coincidentally, in classic half-assed amNewYork fashion, the ...
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