American press Bring me a real paper

摘要

In 1958, The Economist accurately described the Los Angeles Times as "a shoddy sheet of extreme right-wing viewpoint". It had a deserved reputation for being one of America's worst, if most profitable, newspapers. S.J. Perelman of the New Yorker liked to tell how once when his train stopped in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he had asked a porter to bring him a newspaper. "Unfortunately," Perelman recalled, "the poor man, hard of hearing, brought me the Los Angeles Times."