Almost missed this, but it looks like OC Post, the Register's laughable, pathetic attempt at reaching the county's commute-by-subway crowd (uhhhh...) has mercilessly been shotgunned through the skull.
Mostly, anyway—it's apparently going to be merged with the Reggie's throwaway "community news" rag the Irvine World News in February, making the Post an Irvine-only pub. In other words, it'll become as much of a forgotten bastard stepchild as SqueezeOC, which also crashed and burned and now only exists as a skeletal, web-only presence that even the Reg seems embarrassed about—go ahead, hit up the Reg's website, and just try to find the microscopic link to Squeeze's maggotty corpse.
The Reg sank some $20 million into this rancid joyride, a brainfart of former publisher Christian Anderson, who was rightfully canned a few months back. But what we wanna know is: who was the dipshit responsible for approving those pathetic, reader-insulting "Cut to fit Your Life!" Post TV commercials—especially the one with the 15-second Shakespeare play that tried to convince people that 15-second Shakespeare is a good thing?
Anyway, here's the official Reg story. Here's a blog about the Post's death by former Reg editorialist John Seiler. And here's a pissy thing I wrote on my personal MySpace blog not long after the Post's premiere issue in August 2006, when they were desperately trying to get people to pay $19.99 for a year's subscription. For CRAP.
Wonder what'll happen to all those red metal Post newsracks littering the county?
January 17, 2008 20:01
I am sooooooooo sorry to see this piece of so-called journalistic crap go by the wayside. I will miss making fun of those county idiots who actually got their 'news' from this condensed piece of crap. What will all those right wing, talking point idiots who have no CLUE WHAT CRITICAL ANALYSIS do now??? Oh, wait, they still have Fox News and their crapolla list of 'journalists' like O'Reilly and Hannity. Still, I will miss seeing those who actually thought they looked intellectual while reading the OC Post at coffee houses. HAHAHAHA!
January 18, 2008 12:24
oh geez, haves some class.
January 18, 2008 22:49
To rich kane and cesar madrid. The oc post was
a worthy efford it needed to be tweeked. but it wasn't crap.
January 19, 2008 17:34
Um, due respect ... but isn't a shotgun to the skull more merciFUL than merciLESS?
It's over so quick, man.
I mean, a shotgun to both kneecaps, a hacksaw to the elbows, rolling the torso down a rocky slope, then dousing it in kerosene, lighting a joint with a match, tossing the match at Stumpy and watching him/her/it burn ... THAT seems merciless.
January 21, 2008 14:53
Great news! Now I don't have to waste 30 seconds walking out into my drive, picking up that neatly bagged piece of crap that littered my driveway several times a week. Even went so far as to call them but was told they couldn't stop individual deliveries as it was bulk-everybody got one. Almost as annoying as 15 credit card offers in my mail every week. You're next Capitol One!