Yesterday by accident I came across the “online” version of The New York Daily News, the paper that introduced me to Dick Tracy when I was a kid. It was one of the “foundation” papers for the strip carrying the strip on the front page of the Sunday comic section (and wrapped around the WHOLE paper)
The strip remained in the paper until about 1996 when it was dropped suddenly. My “take” was that the quality of the strip had slipped badly and the Editors simply did what hundreds more were in the process of doing.
But “defenders” saw it differently. The usual “spin” to protect the then producers, Kilian and Locher. What had happened they said was that the ownership of the newspaper changed hands. Sounds reasonable on the surface, but dig a little deeper.They only lost a “requirement” to carry the strip. It would now have to earn it’s right to stay there, and it didn’t !
PLOP ! And it skidded on the N.Y. sidewalks !
Then the next line of “defense” was that “continuity” strips were now out of favor. They had to make way for humorous strips. Could that be right ? Sorry ! Not in the New York Daily News as of yesterday.
Among a wider selection these “serial” type strips are now carried in their pages –
1) The Phantom
2) Mandrake
3) Spiderman
4) Flash Gordon
5) Prince Valiant
6) Apt. 3-G
7) Rex Morgan
8) Judge Parker
9) Mary Worth
My Lord ! What a come down ! II’s one thing to be replaced by Lee Falk’s Phantom but we have a shocking new LOW here ! ? Is the Mary Worth package more “attractive” and viable than Dick Tracy ? It’s not “skidding” on the sidewalk anymore, it’s floating down the Drain ! Twenty three million readers on the Internet ? What do you think ?
Some people need to hang their heads in shame. Including those that have the temerity to posture boldly as they defend trash ! Imagine ! Mary Worth !
And less we forget, these guys “INHERITED”, 300 Plus newspapers. Under their stewardship it’s slipped to a “finger nail” biting 50 newspapers ! Under their management they lost 83% of what they started with.
Why should we bother to respond to their questionable defensive comments ?
Yesterday by accident I came across the “online” version of The New York Daily News, the paper that introduced me to Dick Tracy when I was a kid. It was one of the “foundation” papers for the strip carrying the strip on the front page of the Sunday comic section (and wrapped around the WHOLE paper)
The strip remained in the paper until about 1996 when it was dropped suddenly. My “take” was that the quality of the strip had slipped badly and the Editors simply did what hundreds more were in the process of doing.
But “defenders” saw it differently. The usual “spin” to protect the then producers, Kilian and Locher. What had happened they said was that the ownership of the newspaper changed hands. Sounds reasonable on the surface, but dig a little deeper.They only lost a “requirement” to carry the strip. It would now have to earn it’s right to stay there, and it didn’t !
PLOP ! And it skidded on the N.Y. sidewalks !
Then the next line of “defense” was that “continuity” strips were now out of favor. They had to make way for humorous strips. Could that be right ? Sorry ! Not in the New York Daily News as of yesterday.
Among a wider selection these “serial” type strips are now carried in their pages – 1) The Phantom 2) Mandrake 3) Spiderman 4) Flash Gordon 5) Prince Valiant 6) Apt. 3-G 7) Rex Morgan 8) Judge Parker 9) Mary Worth
My Lord ! What a come down ! II’s one thing to be replaced by Lee Falk’s Phantom but we have a shocking new LOW here ! ? Is the Mary Worth package more “attractive” and viable than Dick Tracy ? It’s not “skidding” on the sidewalk anymore, it’s floating down the Drain ! Twenty three million readers on the Internet ? What do you think ?
Some people need to hang their heads in shame. Including those that have the temerity to posture boldly as they defend trash ! Imagine ! Mary Worth !
And less we forget, these guys “INHERITED”, 300 Plus newspapers. Under their stewardship it’s slipped to a “finger nail” biting 50 newspapers ! Under their management they lost 83% of what they started with.
Why should we bother to respond to their questionable defensive comments ?