A graduate with a science degree asks, “Why does it work?”
A graduate with an engineering degree asks, “How does it work?”
A graduate with an mathematics degree asks, “How can we improve the work?”
A graduate with a sociology degree asks, “What are the benefits of the work?”
A graduate with a photojournalism degree asks, “Would you like fries with that?”
After graduating from photojournalism school, a Toronto photographer got a job at a low-paying newspaper which was going through a lot of cost-cutting.
The young news photographer was sent to his first out-of-town job but was booked into a very cheap hotel. When he called room service to get another towel, the hotel clerk replied, “You’ll have to wait. Someone else is using it.”
After returning from the out-of-town assignment, the photographer said to his photo editor, “I have to have a raise. And just so you know, there are three other companies after me.”
“Is that so?” asked the editor. “What other companies are after you?”
“The cable company, the phone company and the gas company.”
The photo editor couldn’t afford to give the photographer a raise but he agreed to send the photographer on a unique travel junket to fly to the moon to photograph the first outer space restaurant.
When the photographer returned from the moon, everyone at the paper asked him about the new lunar restaurant. He replied, “Good food but no atmosphere.”
Photo coverage of the lunar restaurant failed to boost the newspaper’s circulation. In fact, circulations were continuing to decline at all newspapers across Canada.
The situation became so desperate that the Canadian Newspaper Association realized that it had one last chance to help its member newspapers. The association sent someone to ask for help from the Pope.
The newspaper association’s representative told the Pope about the falling newspaper circulations and the huge loss of advertising money.
“Your Holiness,” said the representative, “We need you to change the daily prayer from, ‘Give us this day our daily bread’ to ‘Give us this day our daily newspaper’. If you do it, we’ll donate $2 million to the Vatican.”
The Pope replied, “I am sorry but that is the Lord’s prayer and I cannot change the words.”
After a few more months of declining circulations, the newspaper association sent its man back to the Vatican.
“Please, your Excellency. We really need your help. We’ll donate $10 million if you change the words from ‘Give us this day our daily bread’ to ‘Give us this day our daily newspaper.’ “
“It is very tempting,” the Pope responded. “The church could do a lot of good with that money. But, again, I must decline. It is the Lord’s prayer and I cannot change the words.”
After several more months of continued circulation losses, the newspaper representative was again sent to the Vatican.
“We are desperate, Most Holy Father. If you change the words of the daily prayer from ‘Give us this day our daily bread’ to ‘Give us this day our daily newspaper’, we’ll donate $50 million to the Vatican.”
The Pope replied, “Let me get back to you.”
The next day, the Pope called together all of his bishops and announced, “I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that a group of Canadian newspapers is going to donate $50 million to the church.”
The bishops rejoiced at the news.
The Pope continued, “The bad news is, we lost the Wonder Bread account.”
