by:
MARLATT, ANDREW

Publisher:
International Thomson Publishing
Published:June 4, 2002
ISBN:0767908872
Format:Paperback
Pages:192

Description: From Publishers Weekly
With a humorous take on the business of mistakes, Andrew Marlatt (an editor, writer, designer and technician at SatireWire.com) offers Economy of Errors: SatireWire Gives Business the Business. The book is a compendium of nine issues of the satirical magazine BusinessMonth Weekly. Some of the pieces are indeed funny (e.g., an article titled "Cubists Launch Unnavigable Web Site; Conceptual Realism Dominates Site No One Will Be Able to Use Anyway"); others are just plain corny (e.g., an ad proclaiming, "Business Gifts for Business People: Save Yourself with `Shoot Howard Next!' Officewear").
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Product Description:
From the creator of SatireWire.com, the hysterical, award-winning Web site that "unite(s) The Onion and the Wall Street Journal in a marriage of pure lunacy" (Fast Company) comes a sizzling spoof of the breathless business journalism America has grown to distrust.
Through his hugely popular Web site Andrew Marlatt has hilariously skewered America's marketing moguls, double-talking executives, and the sharky venture capitalists who seemed so omnipotent in the 1990s and so out-to-lunch in the 2000s. Now, Economy of Errors showcases Marlatt's on-the-mark parodies of nine years of corporate kookiness and the business journalists who put their spin on it. His collection contains laugh-out-loud funny editorials, news shorts, mock Q and As, and features such as:

and#8226;ATandT Cuts Workforce by 120 Percent
and#8226;French Strike for Greater Productivity
and#8226;Friends Recall Gist of Cliffs Notes Founder
and#8226;E-toys Meets Expectations: None
and#8226;Man Continually Logs On/Off ObsessiveCompulsive.com
and#8226;Fed Drops Rates, Acid, at Policy Rave