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Feb 02, 2025
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Here is a joke which you may not fully appreciate unless you have spent your life in journalism.

These three journalists – an editor, a reporter and a photographer – are walking along the beach, and the editor picks up a bottle and pulls the cork. Immediately, a genie pops out.

“Thank you for setting me free,” the genie says. “I shall grant each of you one wish, beyond your wildest dreams.”

The photographer says, “I want to go to the South Seas, sip tangy tropical drinks from a cocoanut shell, and shoot breathtaking photos of sunrises and sunsets.”

There is a puff of smoke, and the photographer disappears.

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