This is the weekend edition of TheMarioBlog and will be updated as needed. The next blog post is Monday, September 24.

I am enjoying reading The New York Times‘ latest daily newsletter: On Politics.

It is clever, informative and offers a good summary of the important political news of the day.

Yet, I was quite surprised reading the September 18 edition of the newsletter when, suddenly, as I scrolled, I ran into an ad for the FT (Financial Times).

I guess an ad is an ad, and the space goes to whoever pays for it. All good and sound, except I thought that perhaps the two newspapers vie for the same type of readers. Take a look.

An oddity, indeed.

Talking about the power of red

Here is this week’s cover of TIME. Red as the color of passion for a truly passionate subject in the United States at the moment: the confirming of a possible new Justice for the Supreme Court. A hot story that qualifies for this red treatment.

Our earlier blog post on the color red:

It’s red all over

The Way They Were

If you are like  me, you always enjoy taking a look at how first editions of newspapers looked like.

This piece shows us 9 of the most famous US newspapers on the day of their birth!  Fun.

Text driven, for sure. No signs of photos, of course.

And some funny names: take a look at what The San Francisco Chronicle was called back then.

https://www.businessinsider.com/9-of-the-very-first-editions-of-famous-american-newspapers-2018-9?r=UK&IR=T&utm_source=CNN%20Media%3A%20Reliable%20Sources&utm_campaign=956e553cbf-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_11_04_47_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e95cdc16a9-956e553cbf-83098389

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