Doonesbury - Sunday March 9, 1980 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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Mark: Comming up: stock market analyst Herb Watson! Get out those pencils and papers, campers! Good evening. A few weeks ago, media critic, Albert Schoenfel predicted on this show that the '80s would be a windfall decade for soft news. Here to refute that view is stock market analyst Herb Watson. Mr. Watson, in this month's "Forbes," you write it's going to be a bad year for soft news. Why? Man: Well, Mark, the answer to that question lies in current investment patterns. Late last year, I began to notice that a number of multinationals, like IBM, for instance, seemed to be shifting capital from their foreign operations back to the U.S. This puzzled me, so I made some calls. I soon found out why. Certain key business figures were predicting a major non-nuclear global war within the next yar. Mark: Which, of course, is bad for light features. Man: Right. Unless Cheryl Tibbs starts selling War Bonds.

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