Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 29, 2008
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Transcript:
Reporter: Rick! Heard it's your last day! Rick: Uh... yup. I heard the same thing, Dale! Reporter: Man! It's a damn shame what's happening to our industry, isn't it? Rick: Sure is. Reporter: Okay, that's all I got. Rick: Me, too.
margueritem almost 16 years ago
How men comfort each other.
txmystic almost 16 years ago
OK, there’s simple and then there’s simple. The irony is that Rick has 33 years of journalistic experience, and he can’t wrap up the demise of his industry and his position in it any better than that?
ronebofh almost 16 years ago
He’s probably a little too close, and it’s a little too soon.
ChiehHsia almost 16 years ago
Totally. Just wait until he gets to this chapter in the book he’s just GOT to write.
knitwrit almost 16 years ago
well, i have to say: i’ve just been laid off / taken a buyout / whatever you want to call it after 18 years of working in newspapers, and this sums it up pretty well. the demise of newspapers stuns journalists – men and women both – into silence.