The August 6 Cartoon Caption Winner!

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The winner:

"After Murdoch's edit, there's nothing 'left'!"

-- Tom Haines of Charlotte

The runners-up:

"It's a News Corpse paper!"

-- Ross Levin, Charlotte

"Well honey, it's the Fox News edition.  All headlines and no story."

-- David Merritt, Charlotte

"Perhaps the Mac version would have more news than the Windows edition."

-- Carolyn Hudson, Columbia, SC

“Murdoch did say he’d make the editorial process transparent!”

-- Ross Bailey, Cornelius

Thank you for all your entries.  Due to an editing error, Mr. Haines' winning caption was published incorrectly in Monday's Observer.  The version here is the correct one.

Here's a selection of some of the other better lines we received this week:

"Paris Hilton didn't make the news today!"

"It’s a special edition highlighting all the successes of the Bush administration."

"What'd expect? Dow Jones sold the paper on margin."

"What's your problem? Rupert has been using see-through models in his other tabloids for years."

"Looks like he's finally giving the left and the right the same amount of coverage."

"It's great, they started listing only the stocks that went up."

"I cut out the articles about Britney Spears and Lindsey Lohan."

"The Wall Street Journal has adopted the same format for reporting business news that The Observer uses."

"I like the Journal a lot better now that Murdoch has gotten rid of all that news I disagreed with!"

"I see they removed all of the stories about Wall Street cheaters."

"I told you it was a 'bear' market dear!"

"I've heard of a new owner "gutting" a newspaper but this is ridiculous!"

"This way, you can read the paper and watch FOXnews at the same time."

"I didn't realize that the Wall Street Journal used to feature so many stories critical of Rupert Murdoch."

"It's more 'fair and balanced' now, dear."

"All the news that's fit to print!"

"No news is good news!"

Want to discuss the winners?  Got another caption to add to the list?  Want to judge these yourself, and let us know your favorites?  Feel free to click on the little blue "Comments" link just below this post to share your views on any of this.

Comments

[Joy Motte]

Funny, I was thinking about something on the same line. After all, Murdock ate all the newspapers because he got hungry.

[Ken]

I didn't submit this one but thought of it as well. "All the news that's fit to print!" or Murdoch's version of "all the news that's fit to print". Still better than most of the other entries.

[LT]

I also thought of a couple of the ones here, but didn't submit them because they seemed too obvious. Given the choices, though, I would have picked "News Corpse". Love that !!! Looking forward to the next one, and glad my Monday morning routine has been restored !!

[Kevin Siers]

Mr. Haines' caption was published incorrectly in Monday's Observer. The version here online is the correct one. There are no plans at present to change the name of this feature to "We re-write the caption."

[Ross Levin]

Hey Judges, thanks for the Silver! I'll keep on trying, and welcome back YWTC, we missed ya!

[Steve Ealey]

Great submissions this week. The winner nailed it!