B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for April 07, 2011

“We sell space.”

Clark Gable

You could always use the backside of flowered wallpaper!

Looks like he’s about to have a fit.

And I thought they shortened up on the comics to make room for story.

Good Morning, Fellow Cave Dwellers.

That’s why news writers are taught to write in the “inverted pyramid” style. The most important information goes at the beginning, then the next most important, until the least important is at the end. That way, the last paragraph or two can be cut without losing much. In reality, the editor would have cut off whatever needed cutting without even telling the reporter, and the reporter would have thought nothing of it.

EdiThor.

We will not glory that the NYT is going on line and out of print.

Shorten your answer, to nothing.

Good Morning Lonewolf, Gweedo, Grog, & Everyone

I don’t get papers anymore because I have Gocomics and my dog is housetrained.

It’s an old gag. I remember seeing “All the news that fits” on an April 1 masthead of the Daily Bruin in the late 60’s.

as opposed to an article on the weird pet activities of pop stars:

All the gnus that Prince could fit.

saw a copy of my local paper yesterday. they’re down to 8 comic strips and one crossword puzzle and it’s all jammed into less than a tabloid page. ridiculous! thank goodness for on line comics and puzzles.

“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.” – Thomas Jefferson

“The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.” – Thomas Jefferson

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” – Thomas Jefferson

Thanks for the vent. Our newspaper is 3 days/week. Overshadowed by a syndicate. This I don’t like.

People are buying up the news and printing what they like. Soon we’ll be hearing how lovely the radioactive air is in Tokyo these days.

Nab, thanks for pointing out one of the lovely little destructions of differing thought from the Repubs during the last decade. Counterbalance the paper with a liberal (he-haw) dose of Fixed News.

Can you imagine what Clark Kent and Lois Lane would be doing for a living now if they had started in 2011 instead of in 1938?

Know any OLDER gags?