MyThreeDaughters

Car companies need a bailout?
Really? The people who made these need a bailout.
O.K., that does it, the father of three lovely girls then says it’s time for newspapers to head to Washington and get in line for a bailout.
Daddy’s business has been taking it on the chin for a long time now. As the economists say, the “downstream effects” of this are several fold.
Journalists are losing jobs.
With no newspaper reporters, what would bloggers bloggerate about?
Headline: The Death of Blogs.
Without the morning paper, and now newspaper Web sites that people read for free on their work computers while they’re getting paid to supposedly be doing something else (What a deal!), how would TV journalists know which stories to pursue?
Without newspaper reporters, orders of Venti shade-grown Starbucks would plummet. Barristas across the country would feel the hurt. (Who else, if not a bunch of sentimental liberals, would tip someone a buck for pouring them a cup of coffee?)
Without newspapers, as we say in the South, all y’all who just had to have a newspaper the day after Obama won would be left to print out a cached version of a news web site.
You think we’re going to design front pages if there are no other pages? If we did, what would we say? Editor’s Note: Here’s the front page that we would have designed if we had more pages to put behind it, or somewhere to put it, or anybody to deliver it to, so please download the free version of Adobe Acrobat and print it out yourself. Enjoy.
So Dear Mr. Federal Official: Please bail out my industry.
If not, please bail out me.
One million dollars, after taxes, should do it.
And please print out the bills for me. My printer’s out of ink.