Boned like a saint With the consciousness of a snake

The finances are so tight that the [Washington Times] hasn't paid some of its bills or tended to basic maintenance issues -- such as hiring an exterminator to deal with mice and snakes sneaking into the building on New York Avenue in Northeast.
[...] "There was a three-foot-long black snake in the main conference room the other day. We have snakes in the newsroom -- the real live variety, at least. One of the security people gallantly removed it."

Our artist's reconstruction shows the secret discussions in which the director Nicholas Chiaia (right) rebuffs a request from the editor Sam Dealey (left) for an extension of the US$35 million / year subsidy that keeps the Washington Times going.


I am shocked, shocked that a US newspaper, founded to promote the right-wing political views of a South Korean billionaire conman / religious leader, turns out have buggerall readers and be commercially unviable. It is almost as if the journal's real target audience consisted of journalists and editors from other papers.

H/t Snorghagen.
Here at Riddled we have previously called our readers' attention to the threat posed by butt-snakes, but did anyone listen?!