According to the Washington Post, ExxonMobil is trying to downplay the horrific profit of last quarter by taking out newspaper ads and the like to “demonstrate its bottom-line modesty.” How? By saying that they don’t make as much money as companies in banking and pharmaceuticals.
Like we respect the restrained pricing models of those two industries. That’s like the bootlegger saying that he doesn’t make as much money as the loan shark and the drug dealer.
From NewsBlues (subscription required) via DCRTV: We heard from an extremely agitated DC newsie who claimed that last night, while the US was preparing for war and bracing for potential terrorist activity, WTTG-5-Fox [more...]
WRC-TV is currently airing a story patting themselves on the back, with a police spokesman saying that they have arrested suspects in a bank robbery because of a story aired on Channel 4’s news. Then they spend a [more...]
Yet another story about the bizarre world of our subway, Metro: A Metro train operator abandoned her train in a station during the evening rush hour Monday, hopping aboard a train going in the opposite direction and [more...]
