I know I’ve picked on them a lot in the past, and it may not seem like I’m really rooting for them, per se, but how about the Enquirer?  They’re certainly important to the community, and it’s no secret that they’ve run into some trouble here and there, but they’re our newspaper and therefore we read ‘em. All told, I love the Enquirer and want it to be better than it is–think of it as tough love.  Or something like that.

Pros:

• It’s your one-stop shop for press release, crime and government stories, and high school sports scores.
• If you do telephone sales of any kind, they’re looking to hire you.
• Every year it seems like they change their weight/size to an easier-to-carry format.  POSITIVE SPIN ZONE!

Cons:

• The layoffs of editorial staff over the past couple years means that we get to not-so-randomly find typos and mistakes of all varieties.  (Sidebar: someone should make a game where the object is to find the most obscure grammatical/punctuation mistake in the Enquirer.  Winner gets an editorial position at the Enquirer, if they want it.)
• They appear to see themselves in direct competition with the television stations.  NO–YOU DO NEWS, THEY DO WEATHER.  That’s how it should be, anyhow.

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