Satirical columnist fired - for being too satirical

"Nobody reads newspapers anymore... As this very copy of Metro shows, the only way to get most people to read a newspaper is to literally force it into their hands." Those lines in his satirical column were enough to get the writer, Elliott Kalan, fired from the New York edition of Metro on the express orders of the ceo at its owner, Stockholm-based Metro International. Kalan says: "My assumption is that the wrong person saw it and didn't get the joke. They're very straightforward people, the Swedes." (Via New York magazine)