What was that on the front of Thursday’s Wall Street Journal?
That’s it, folks. I’ve officially seen everything now.
It wasn’t that long ago that the Wall Street Journal was all black-and-white. Even the mug shots were stipple.
And then Thursday, we saw a color photo of a woman and her parrot:
The headline on that photo though, was most amusing
It was a reference to a famous old bit from the 1970s cult comedy show Monty Python:
Slate’s James Ledbetter writes:
Even allowing for the cleverness of the treatment, you have to wonder whether there is anyone left at the Journal who thinks that this kind of pure tabloid treatment demeans the journalistic mission of the paper—or whether that mission has passed on. Is no more. Has ceased to be. (See how quickly the cleverness wears off?)
I dunno. I thought it was pretty funny. Especially given the fact that the Journal almost never cracks a smile — especially on page one.
March 12th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
Special props to Jeff Swenson for the photo.
March 13th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Oh, thanks for including the Python video bit. The last line of this sketch is as prescient for BILD as the first one was for WSJ. Timeless.