Observer Effect
July 26th, 2009 Gumlegs
Our favorite broadsheet newspaper here at Darwin Central is, of course, our own Galapagos Mirror Observer Effect (etc). A particularly popular feature, repeated in every anniversary edition, is the reprint section, consisting of nuggets gleaned from the paper’s voluminous archives. Fortunately for its readers, due to various mergers in the newspaper business, the Observer Effect (as we like to call it), publishes thirty-six anniversary editions a year, one for each of the papers that combined to form today’s mighty giant of the newsprint industry.
Please indulge us, as we publish a few of our favorites. Some of these have already been posted in the forum; others are shown here for the first time. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do.
A quite recent article on the present Administration’s efforts to provide all goods and services to everyone was reprinted along with the more customary older items. Perhaps the uncommonly interesting — and apt — name of the Third Deputy Assistant Under-Czar had something to do with its inclusion.
Vice President Biden always provides some fascinating column inches. One of our friends at the paper calls the esteemed VP “The Cure for an Empty Page.” Lately, Mr. Biden appears to have been re-reading some of the classics, in this case, George Orwell’s “1984.” No doubt he’d tell us he loves reading history. This story appeared in the DC Forum.
Some problems remain constant and some stories seem to repeat themselves endlessly. Here’s an example of a modern problem in antique dress, combined with one of those “Clever Hans” animal stories that seem to bubble up every few years. The Forum also printed this one.
We’re not certain about the source of this next clipping, but it may have come from the paper edited by Mr. Tintenflecker. The great editor/publisher certainly seemed convinced that no chicanery is possible when it comes to official documents. We rest easier at night knowing that faking the news has never been possible in our nation’s newsrooms. This clipping appeared during a Forum discussion of Mr. Obama’s birth certificate.
This next one appears to be a real antique. We apologize for the phraseology and attitudes of the period, but the historical interest of the clipping far outweighs any other consideration. We are happy to know that such vile behavior (including the attitude of the un-named reporter), never stains anyone in today’s Congress or media. (The version that appeared in the DC Forum is a variant; perhaps from another edition of the same paper).
Finally, we present this broadside from the Colonial period. We do not know its exact date, and it does not appear to be part of an actual newspaper, but it is an interesting insight into its era, roughly the late eighteenth century. A Forum poster placed it there not long ago.
Finally, we feel we should show our readers the proud masthead of the paper that contained the above material.
Posted in Humor | Comments Off
