Fig leaf of the year

When the "old aunt" from Falkenstrasse coyly lifted her skirt hem up to the garter belt at the beginning of 2003, she received some sympathy from the competition in addition to the obligatory malice. "After all, the NZZ also has to plug its advertising hole somehow", the Mittelland Zeitung, for example, doubled down on the new sex salon advertisement page in the Ausgeh-Agenda Ticket. Publishing director Tobias Trevisan, however, steadfastly denied such base motives and instead referred to the "pure service character" of his honorable escort guide in a completely irony-free manner.in the pre-Christmas editions of Ticket, the Lustengel are now particularly eye-catching, offering their unchristian form of charity for the first time across an entire panoramic page. In return, the content, which had already become all too clear, was further reduced. In early summer, NZZ chief service provider Hugo Bütler went on record to say that the highly loss-making Line Extension was "still in the development phase". Of course, he was only referring to the advertising business. However, the cultural calendar is also in urgent need of journalistic expansion. Because remember: without journalistic meat, there is no commercial fat on this (or any other) newspaper bone.
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