Buy today’s paper… or the cat gets it

Did anyone out there spot this yesterday?

Tahoe Daily Tribune cover

It’s page one of Tuesday’s Tahoe Daily Tribune.

When I saw it, I immediately thought of this iconic January 1973 cover of the National Lampoon:

Both covers, compared

The Tahoe Daily Tribune is based in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., and circulates about 20,000 daily. My apologies for picking on the fine folks there.

Read how the economic downturn has affected house pets here.

Read about that Lampoon cover — judged the No. 7 top magazine cover of the past 40 years by the American Society of Magazine Editors — here.

One Response to “Buy today’s paper… or the cat gets it”

  1. Elizabeth Smith Says:

    It’s a sad situation when you can no longer afford to keep your pet(s). Of course it’s even sadder when people are foreclosed on. We were having a pity party this morning over how much advertising we’ve lost in the last couple of years. Less ads mean less pages and less need for designers. *sigh*

 


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