Thursday, May 26, 2005

Coming Soon: Pepsi™ Presents The New York Times

This is unbelievably shocking:


The above picture, from whatevs dot org, shows boxes for Detroits two major papers yesterday. On the left is the News, owned by Gannett, and on the right is the Free Press, owned by Gannett's competitor, Knight-Rider. Did they both just happen to stumble upon the same wire photo and use it for their front page? Why, no! They both just happened to sell their front pages to Marshall Fields on the same day.

That's right! Both major Detroit papers featured a full-page ad for a department store on the front page. You know, page A-1. Not the back page. The front page. Full-page ad.

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