Forget about which newspaper is endorsing what candidate. Turn your attention to prestigious news journal Parade, where you’ll find a significant endorsement of a very different kind. There it is, right on page 2, in the questions to venerated newsman Walter Scott:
“I read that Jay Leno doesn’t want
to retire and may switch networks
if NBC replaces him on The Tonight
Show with Conan O’Brien. Who do you
think would win a head-to-head competition: Jay or Conan?
I will skip through the complex media analysis that follows, and boil it down for the layman: “We’d bet on Jay.”
But don’t just take Mr. Scott’s word for it. The article goes on to invite readers to vote for their favorite late-night host online. I pointed my browser to Parade.com, and, after a few hours of reading scoop after scoop of hard news, I came upon the results of the poll:
(Wow, Carson, buddy, that’s gotta hurt. Even ONE vote would have given you a percentage point. Ah well.)
Now my only hope is that, at whatever bartending or busboy job I have a that point, my new boss is kind enough to switch over to Jay and his new show.
