Wall Times Post Gazette

[pne]

Today's desk Dilbert calendar had a strip where Dilbert got a call from a business reporter for the Wall Times Post Gazette.

I suppose that that name is not just a string of newspaperish-sounding name components but a deliberate composite of several well-known newspapers. I think I recognise the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, but I'm stuck on the “Gazette” part. Any suggestions?

(Also, any corrections on the other parts? For example, I considered whether the LA Times might have been meant, but I get the impression that the New York Times is more well-known.)

Comments

[asciident]

Gazette is used in a lot of newspaper titles, including the London Gazette and the Charleston Gazette. The Times is also a UK newspaper. Basically, the title mashes together a bunch of words that appear very frequently in newspaper titles, and that you can pick out the most renowned ones is part of the play on words. :)

[darth-spacey.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Times, Post and Gazette are probably the most common non-geographic portions of newspaper names in the USA, possibly along with Dispatch, Observer, and of course News.

[mendel.livejournal.com]

Agree. "Wall" is the outlier there for me, not "Gazette". Surely it should've been the Times Post Gazette Sun.