What is your newspaper's nickname?

[Fendrcaster]

Then your cousin is my boss.

Tell Joe I said hey!

[Bernie]

Originally Posted by brownshoe

The San Jose Mercury News is referred to as "The Merc" as in...

1. gloomy or dark
2. cloudy or hard to see through: a murky stagnant pond
3. obscure and suspicious; shady: murky goings-on, his murky past

I've heard it referred to as the "San Jose Murky News," as well.

[roadkillbill]

The Times- Disgrace......(Richmond Times-Dispatch)

[Caffeine Patrol]

Journal-World aka Urinal-World (a piss-poor paper).

[brownshoe]

Originally Posted by Bernie

I've heard it referred to as the "San Jose Murky News," as well.

Yep, forgot about that, good one!

[Charlie Bernstein]

I used to live in Providence. They call the Providence Journal the Providence Urinal.

And I have a friend who calls her local paper The Bleat. I've always liked that.

[sean79]

Caffeine Patrol... you're not from Lawrence, are you?

We have the Bradford Era, so frequently riddled with mistakes, it's called the Bradford Error.

[blue metalflake]

In Northern Ireland the local evening paper is the Belfast telegraph, known across the land as the "Tele".

[eastside]

The Syracuse Post-Standard is sometimes referred to as "The Sub-Standard."

The Post Standard used to be our morning paper. The afternoon paper was The Herald Journal aka "The Herald Urinal."

No we only have the "Sub."

Greg

[P-Nutz]

... (a Pulitzer winner!) is called the "Liars on Locust" for the street the old main offices were on.

Omaha has the "Weird Harold" (World Herald).

That's all I got!

Peace.

[jlrich]

I used to live in Hoke county N.C. (the Ft. Bragg area) and the local, weekly is the News-Journal. We referred to it as the Hoke Joke.

[e-merlin]

Here in Sioux Falls, the paper is the Argus Leader, often called Argus Liar.

My hometown paper was the Garden City (KS) Telegram, which really doesn't lend itself to a nickname.

On the other hand, the Dodge City Daily Globe has often been refered to as the Daily Wipe.

[furrfurrfurr]

Originally Posted by sean79

Caffeine Patrol... you're not from Lawrence, are you?

We have the Bradford Era, so frequently riddled with mistakes, it's called the Bradford Error.

+1

The Lawrence paper is what came to mind for me too. Urinal World.

[Guitar_Ninja]

The Kingston Whig-Standard, commonly known as the 'sub-standard' or the 'pig handlers'.

[GhostofJohnToad]

The Toledo Blade is often called the Toledo Blah-day by local radio stations

[bumper]

Originally Posted by LESPAULKID

Austin American-Statesman aka Austin UnAmerican-Realestatesman...LPK

Alternately "The Spaceman". The Daily Texan (UT student paper) used to be "The Deadly Toxin".

[Deacon Blue]

The Waxahachie Daily Light = The Waxahachie Daily Wipe

Jeff

[PraiseCaster]

I dont know what others call it, but the LA Times, I call "Bird Dooh Catcher"

[mellecaster]

Being near Annapolis MD....our local is called The Capital (Big Surprise)...but in these parts, we have always referred to it as "The Crab Wrapper"
Redd Loves our Hardshell Crabs...BTW.......

[brillocaster]

Originally Posted by roadkillbill

The Times- Disgrace......(Richmond Times-Dispatch)

Dang! Beat me to it.

Richmond is my real home town, but from other prior spot's I've lived:

Winston-Salem has the (notoriously poorly reported and owned by the same company as the equally bad Times-Dispatch) W-S Journal, lovingly dubbed the Urinal.

Chattanooga's paper used to be mildly famous for persisting in a grammatically vague hyphenation to denote the combination of two papers, the News and the Free Press, to give us the "Chattanooga News-Free Press." And they didn't disappoint.