Journal-Sentinel drops Doonesbury

[dragonlady]

The comics section was changed in the Sunday paper today, and they said Doonesbury has been dropped from the daily paper as well. :wtf:
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=792277

One more reason the J-S is becoming irrelevant on paper. Maybe they'll wind up like the Cap Times, on the internet only. Here's a link to the Doonesbury cartoon site:
http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html

[mojowork_n]

1. That's it, the last straw.

"Non-Sequitur" was a pretty decent comic, too, and it's gone as well.

Instead of making an effort to gauge reaction among a representative sampling of readers, the editors relied on a mail-in poll. ...It was the cheapest alternative -- let readers pay the postage costs.

That the poll results were heavily skewed toward conservative retiree's with too much time on their hands can be seen by the comics that finished at the top of the poll:

• Pickles
  
• Zits
  
• Crankshaft
  
  and
  
  
• Family Circus
  

So they replaced "Doonesbury" with "Daddy's Home."

One-size-fits-all, lowest common denominator Idiocracy.
I'm not buying one more copy of the paper -- ever.

Maybe the Cap Times can add some Milwaukee reporters to provide an online alternative. It could be an opportunity for some sort of business start-up to provide an intelligent alternative, now that the J-S has become the Waukesha Freeman. (The "Crossroads" section of the paper was cut to 4 pages, too.)

Actually, if anyone's got any suggestions -- which website should be the common, online rallying point for S.E. Wisconsin liberals? -- it could be worth taking the time to discuss it.

What was Will Rogers famous line -- "I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat?"

...Thanks for the Doonesbury link, by the way.

[Connonym]

2. they kept Family Circus?

wtf? I weep for humanity.

[mojowork_n]

3. What the heck,

there's something about that big circle (in the daily comics section) -- when all the other strips are framed with rectangles or squares -- that I kind of like.

What I don't like is the Journal Sentinel saving on color ink costs by throwing in big black-and-white crossword and horoscope sections.

It's nasty, flat and two-dimensional, just like their editorials.

At BobFest last weekend I talked briefly with Bill Christofferson (alias Xofferson and Xoff). He said he most often posts his stuff to uppitywisconsin.org and onewisconsin.org... but that it would be great if us lib'ruls had one, central website.

[RetroLounge]

4. I dropped my subscription a long time ago

RL

[mduffy31]

5. Just check them online for Packer Coverage

Other than that, you can keep the paper.