Robnett Gazette Launches, NY Times Unshaken

NEW YORK, July 21 — The Robnett Gazette, a news blog exclusively featuring stories about the soon-to-be Robnett family, launched today with absolutely no alarm from The New York Times.


Unshaken, unaware, unimpressed.

Founded in 1851, and with a current readership base of over one million, The New York Times was surprisingly unaware of the launch of The Robnett Gazette, a weblog that at press time had zero readers.

When called for comment, New York Times founders Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones were both “unavailable,” claimed Julio, a New York Times switchboard operator, “because they’re dead.”

The “man” who called himself “Julio” also said he does not know who the Robnetts are and that The New York Times does not believe “family newsletters” are in direct competition with the newspaper.

When informed that for the next few months The Robnett Gazette will be featuring valuable news and information about the upcoming wedding of Stacy and Aaron, he remained calm, and surprisingly unshaken.

“I have to get another call,” said Julio. “well not really, I’m just bored of this conversation.”