• It's Fish Wrapper, Not Weed Wrapper

    In your maudlin Monday media column: Magazines fail at drug-smuggling, sad layoffs at Videogum and Boston Magazine, newspaper reporters in Canada may strike(!), the NYT pokes the WaPo, and an update on the Milwaukee journalist-cop affair scandal.

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    A 70 year-old American woman tried to smuggle a half pound of marijuana into the country from Amsterdam by concealing it "inside a newspaper wrapped bundle of Der Spiegel magazines." Say the Feds in a laff-filled press release: "Unless she intended to write a book on German marijuana, the "reference material" an elderly traveler presented to Customs and Border Protection officers at Washington-Dulles International Airport on Wednesday afternoon won't help much anymore." Hahaha, Feds. Bucky Turco made the appropriate joke, which is, hey, another thing magazines aren't good for.

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