The Times Club
: If I didn’t already subscribe to, read, and like The New York Times, its commercials certainly would never get me to start. What a bunch of pompous twits.
7 responses to “The Times Club”
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I dunno – the commercials fit their intended audience (limosine liberals) pretty well. Almost comically well.
I’m reminded of one I sorta used to date – she was talking to me about Michael Moore’s last, and it turned out that the only place showing it in town was this upscale theater in this posh mall.
A mall in which I used to get harassed in by security guards because of how I looked (at the time, I looked a bit, er, scummy – long hair, beard, old clothing). I would only go to the mall because it was next to a library where my mothered worked, but it was always amusing.
But my point is, those mall patrons were Michael Moore’s intended audience, and are the New York Times intended audience as well. -
You typed “it’s” where “its” should be. Man, you bloggers need more editors.
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Especially embarrassing when talking about the New York Times, eh?
Fixed.
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But how would you know about how they “surround a story” giving the reader “so many different ways to think about it” if they didn’t have those silly spots? To me that “surround a story” line sounds like something put a police hostage squad’s report, but hey, I’m just the reader looking for the news.
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I believe the word you are looking for is pretentious.
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What commercials? Links?
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I’m sure the ads do appeal to their target audience, but they sure grate on my nerves. “I’d like to start home delivery of the NY Times!” one woman says into the phone, as if it’s a momentous, life-altering decision.
