Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 07, 2013

Zip looks at the newspaper like it’s a coiled rattlesnake aiming right for his nose. Wonder why that is.

What? Read NEWSPAPERS? That’s so, like, 1980!

Newspaper, what’s that?

Flexible paper newspapers made of newsprint is going out to make way for inflexible screens of jumping, interactive, sometimes 3D pixils to come in. Embrace the future, Apple and Samsung!

LATimes, ChiTrib, WaPo, and NooYawkTimes! Change or die!

This change must be what’s bunching Faux’s Correspondent R. Hedley’s shorts!

Follow HuffPo’s lead!

I remember newspapers! They were kinda cool….good memories, good times…What ever happened to them? Anybody?

the 3d revolution that was supposed to happen for tvs, monitors, and the like. that really come to pass. speculate many actors and actresses don’t want to be put in 3d and negative comments of their bodies. or, the tech is really expensive. or, the lack of content of 3d.

Jeff? Works? Jeff?

Perhaps he should take a number?

“But I’ve come a great distance, much of it on foot.”

Sometimes the value of the pilgrimage is not at the destination.

After extensive research*, I have concluded that Zipper is making a clever reference to Thomas Coryat’s book, “Coryat’s Crudities.” Coryat ’s book is about his travels in Europe in 1608 and much of that travel was on foot.*I asked Mr. Google “Much of it on foot. What that?”

Remember? It was one of his parents’ conditions for letting him move back home.

What’s with the newspaper? I didn’t think the Redferns had a bird. Are they moving?

“Writes until noon”? Are we sure that isn’t “Sleeps until noon”? Is Joanie monitoring?

Back in the days of newspapers, The first thing I always read was the comics. Now that everything is online, the first thing I always read is the comics.

http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2012/12/02

What happened to papers. In the old days, readership went up and down and they kept on making papers. More recently, they hired management that was only concerned with “the bottom line” right now, so each time readership went down, they cut something off and threw it away in an effort to save money. (“The ship is sinking! Quick, chop up the lifeboats!”) They dismantled everything, section by section, and reduced the size of the thing a fraction of an inch at a time, leaving nothing but a skimpy little pamphlet full of ads and nothing much of interest.

@nurbz “he Cities we now live in are like Microwave Ovens that are NEVER TURNED OFF”*Funny you should say that…A year ago I traded in my older iMac for a MacBook Air. One of the things I’d been told about the former machine was that it used the same amount of energy as a microwave. Not a happy thought.*We still get the local paper (much diminished, incrementally, as Kip W describes so well), and the Christian Science Monitor (ditto, in addition to which it is now available daily only online, with a weekly print news magazine. Not the old Monitor at all. One of us gets the New York Times digitally; I wish I had time to read it. One advantage of a paper paper is that I can scan it more quickly than I can the digital version, which is how I fit the news into my day. Comics are first in the morning, then the local paper, then the other “papers” and other periodicals in bits and pieces throughout the day as time allows.

“…Jeff …he’ll be worth something.”

Yeah, Susan, but wasn’t he worth something when he published a short-term best seller mainly read by megalomaniacal microcephalics?

I noticed that a few years ago; the paper became thinner as the price went up. Then, some gas stations charged tax on it, and some didn’t. A little extra profit (7%), I guess. So I only buy the Friday paper, which still has the two sections I wanted, and I have time to read it on the weekend. The rest of the news comes digitally, since it’s free and more up-to-date.

Still read the paper. In fact, get home delivery of the New York Times and the Daily News.

‘Harvard Massive Brain Atrophy ’I love that! And the last president we had that had one of those couldn’t even handle the bottom line!

We have an electronic edition for our newspaper which comes free with the print newspaper. My husband still prefers the paper edition, while I think it is great seeing exact print replica on my iPad. Of course, you still can’t train a puppy on an iPad, there is no app for that…

Wow. She really is keeping Jeff to his schedule. Just hope he is actually writing something or mom might start him on a new “schedule”. .Like the paper newspaper. Despite the black ink on the fingers – it is still easier to read than something on a computer screen. – The pages stay open for hours on end when you have to be at your desk working. No battery drain. And yes. It does take longer to put a tablet to sleep mode & then wake it up for the 10-30 second glance at the headlines..and no one steals your paper when you leave it on your desk, unattended for a week or so.

I’m sure that Jeff is writing until noon.

One value of the paper edition of the news is that it leaves copies intact for future reference. “The Commissar Vanishes” makes the point that hard copy can be squirreled away where those who want to rewrite history may find it difficult to locate and edit photos and otherwise change our reacord of the past. Difficult, but sadly not impossible.

Benghazi flu. Get a shot before it spreads.

Calimesajim has a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!