I am again reminded of Laugh-In

[vakkotaur]

Dan Rowan always introduced Dick Martin on "Laugh-In Looks at the News" with the line "Here's the man to whom the news wouldn't be the news without the news-- he-e-e-ere's Dicky!"

From Jack Kelly: The mainstream, out of it:

When the Web logger Laer ("Cheat Seeking Missiles") called to cancel his 25- year subscription to the Los Angeles Times last Monday, he was made an extraordinary offer. The circulation service rep, detecting that he was fed up with the paper's liberal bias, offered to sell him the newspaper without the news sections. Laer was thunderstruck.

"How often must the beleaguered circulation department ... be dealing with calls like mine, for them to come up with a special like this?" he wrote. (On Wednesday, an LA Times exec wrote back, denying that the Times sells partial copies of the paper, but thanking Laer "for bringing this to our attention.")