![]() ![]() Finding delivery people is a headache, judging from the large number of openings the WI State Journal advertises. Advertising revenue is down 40% in just three years! Newsprint is also more expensive (inflation and supply chain). The decline in print-only is a more dramatic 55%. Pew Research reports total weekday circulation - print and on-line - is down 40% since 2015. Only two are said to survive today, both in Montana. when it gave up daily print publication on April 26, 2008. Speaking of which, The Capital Times was one of only about 550 afternoon papers remaining in the U.S. We put out three editions until around 1980 - the first for far-flung delivery to places like Baraboo and Monroe. Hard times for newspapersĪ Capital Times colleague, the late Mike Miller, noted that with every electronic production advancement the deadline moved earlier rather than later. Reading news and commentary on-line works for us but comic strips don’t seem to translate electronically. Candidate websites - hell, your favorite blogge - must be searched for. It’s why political candidates flood your mailboxes with the oversized campaign mailers. The advantage of print is that it lands on your lap, gets in your face. Someone said that no method of communication ever goes away - that somewhere, someone, upon occasion - is sending smoke signals. But where is Dilbert? Crankshaft? Beetle Bailey, Rex Morgan? Disappearing (verb, transitive) Hagar the Horrible is horrible! ![]() The indentured servants here at Stately Blaska Manor are especially enamored of Arlo & Janis and Frazz, which now can be found only on-line. Makes no sense! Comics are hardly deadline-driven. The patient took another turn for the worse with today’s announcement that subscribers must go on-line for their favorite comics. ![]()
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