WordCount » Doonesbury http://michellerafter.com Freelancing in the Digital Age Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:04:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Doonesbury's Redfern gets laid off from the Post http://michellerafter.com/2008/09/17/doonesburys-redfern-gets-laid-off-from-the-post/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://michellerafter.com/2008/09/17/doonesburys-redfern-gets-laid-off-from-the-post/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:49:45 +0000 Michelle V. Rafter http://michellerafter.wordpress.com/?p=734 Everybody in the newspaper business is getting laid off. Even Rick Redfern.

Redfern, the fictional investigative reporter in Gary Trudeau’s Doonesbury comic strip, is getting canned by the Washington Post after 33 years on the job, according to a story line that debuted in the strip this week.

He’s one of the lucky ones, Redfern’s editor tells him in today’s edition: at least he’s getting a severance package. See the whole thing here (click on the image to make it bigger):

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