DeWese--We Have Met the Enemy
Your Mañana Man—that would be me—is the first semi-famous person, however, to orchestrate the three exclamations and one phrase and to publish them in this order. Pretty catchy, eh? That's one of my few talents: orchestration.
Those words are my reaction to all this negative talk about the printing industry. It's also my reaction to Internet companies and their grossly overvalued stocks. How can a dotcom company with no sales and humongous losses be worth enormously more than our printing industry's Mail-Well, Consolidated Graphics, Valassis or R.R. Donnelley? How can unprofitable company Dotcom Website Inc.—with teensy revenues and no profit prospects for the next 10 years—have a market capitalization that is $200 million more than say, Mail-Well, a $2.5 billion, profitable company with more than 120 plants in the United States, Canada and England?
