Another Furlough
You know times are bad when even feisty fictional reporters are put on furlough. In a strip that will run this Saturday, the red haired newspaper vixen, Brenda Starr, will be put on furlough by her gruff boss B. Babbitt Bottomline.
“As far-fetched as some of the plots in Brenda are, I do like to keep it topical,” current Starr writer Mary Schmich told the Chicago Tribune. With the Gannett announcing on Monday that employees will be asked to take more furloughs in April, May and June—in addition to the notice that more cuts would take place—this new Brenda Starr development is about as real as cartoon journalism can get.
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