If to discredit the LA and NY Times is to Degrade papers, what is it .................

1. to insult Regents or Supervisors?
2. to humiliate commerce?
3. to sully business executives?
4. to ridicule public transportation?

Answers:

1. Debase boards
2. Demean business
3. Defile suits
4. Deride buses

Answer:
Pancho Harrison
"IF YOU CAN'T SAY SOMETHING NICE........."

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SEE ALSO: Same puzzle, different format, posted October 4, 2016