At Siuslaw News and newspapers everywhere, editorial and advertising staff are strange bedfellows. Anyone who’s been to our company pajama parties knows this.
Assumning they can remember anything.
But no matter how much one department may feel it’s more important than the other, both know they rely on each other for survival. Without advertising dollars, you don’t get a paycheck; without editorial content, you are… FOX News.
In which case no one takes you seriously, including advertisers.
And maybe even your mother.
Naturally, there are exceptions to this rule. If you’re a humor columnist, for example, NOT being taken seriously just goes with the territory! That’s why I’m allowed to get away with short video ads like this one, which began running on our website and Facebook page today…
We’re a small newspaper trying to be cutting edge. Ironic considering we still have to tell some people not to run with scissors around here.
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(Ned Hickson is a syndicated columnist with News Media Corporation. Still looking for that perfect book for summer reading? Ned’s first book, Humor at the Speed of Life,available from Port Hole Publications, Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble. Disclaimer: You should still use sunscreen when reading this book)
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More Jurassis Mine than Jurassic World
That’s going to leave a Jurassic mark…
I am soooooooo tired of dinosaurs! OMG! They’re everywhere! TV commercials, TV shows, at the cinema! AAAhhhhh!! *runs screaming*
I’d like to point out no dinosaurs were harmed in the making of that video. No brain cells, either.
Apparently!! LOL!
Not the shoes!!!! No velociraptor is worth the loss of a Van!
That just goes to show you how desperate I was!
OMG, Ned! Your advertisers have seen your cat clips and man-about-town cornucopia of video extravaganzas and have bought your brilliance to enrich their coffers. Nicely done you bloggy entrepreneur.And when you are rich and powerful, we will all be able to say: I knew Ned when he was a poor blogger struggling to amuse us. You are a shining example to all of us how hard work and self
degradationdeprecation leads to success – that and exploiting the poor cat to advance in your career ; just how much DID you pay your cat? Eh? Eh? What do you mean, NOTHING!? Never mind looking away – we know you stepped on the head of the beloved family pet to move up in thedog eat dogcat eat cat world of on-air personalities. Oh, Ned, how could you?Ha! Well done my friend (see, I’m a friend now…) 😀
Paul, I’d defintiely rather have you as a friend. Or cat.
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Too freakin funny, Ned! I needed a good laugh today, thanks!
I’m always glad to hear that. As long as I’m dressed.
And here I was wondering who could possibly replace Christopher Lee. You’ll be famous no time. OOPS, I mean IN no time! 🙂
I think you had it right the first time, Mikels…
laugh and the dinos laugh with you, roar and you roar alone. i think socrates said this.
Or Freud.
I’m glad you edited out the video of you searching through dinosaur dung.
Lol! Sadly, I actually had a snippet of dino poo but cut it out for the ad. You know me too well, Steve…
If you got going with your shoe and trained the dinosaurs to sniff for drugs, you could have Jurassic Narc. (I know, I know, really bad.)
Hahahaha! That’s if the dinosaur survived sniffing my shoe!
You spelt assuming incorrectly. 🙂
Thank you! Still a little shaken by the dinosaur incident…
I think you might need two shoes. Maybe if they had dinos on them you wouldn’t be attacked.
I’m looking for Jurassic World Vans as we speak. Just to be safe…
You better hurry!