What Would Google Do? just made the San Francisco Chronicle best-seller list. (I’m damned glad the paper stayed around long enough for that to happen!)
: LATER: Well, judging by the comments, it’s no longer PC to joke about newspapers. In my day, on the newspapers I worked for that folded (two died, one almost did), we engaged in gallows humor. But those were also the days when we drank a lot.
pretty certain there was a “robed shamanist” sighting on cnn.com this morning, too.
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Yuck. This was maybe just something you should have thought to yourself and not said outloud, muchless posted on your blog.
That’s ice cold.
Wow, what a relief it stayed around long enough to help you. Ok, now it can safely fold and create havoc in the lives of thousands of employees and their families.
Have we lost all humor?
Eating little more than mayo on bread off the bare floor of your two-months-past-due apartment after your wife took her kids and left you for a weekend fling with Evan Williams – dammit, I’m sorry, “@ev” – that paid her more than the last 20 years of ink-smeared work, will sap the humor from any of the minority of print journalists too young to know prior hardships.
I was one of those laid-off employees and even I saw the humor. People, if you haven’t gleaned anything, know that Jeff still retains a deep respect for the analog.
Jesus lads, cheer up. It’s just a bit a paper and a few splashes of ink…
*runs around laughing manically*
Congrats Jeff.
Signed
A recently “unhired” newly-freelance hack
We still enjoy gallows humor AND we still drink a lot. Congratulations, Jeff.
The headline was a clue that this was “on the lighter side.”
Congrats, Jeff!
@chrismingryan