Very Funny

“On behalf of the newspaper industry (new cost-cutting motto: ‘All the News That’), I wish to announce some changes we’re making to serve you better. When I say ‘serve you better,’ I mean ‘increase our profits.’ We newspapers are very big on profits these days. We’re a business, just like any other business, except that we employ English majors.”

—Dave Barry, columnist and author, 2001.

• Editorial Comment: I am not positive when Dave Barry wrote that, but it has to be at least 2001, or possibly 1901, because he talks about newspapers and profits in the same breath, and that’s history.

  

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