Bottomline Communications points out the futility of a debate over which comics to keep at The Kansas City Star and catches the paper of record desperately trying to improve their demographics.
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I say keep all the comics but drop the news coverage!
ReplyDeleteThe comics are weirdly special to some folks.
ReplyDeleteWhen we first started up the new presses, we printed the comics in color when we could. I thought they looked much better than black and white. After awhile the Star stopped doing the color for the obvious reason, ink costs money. One day soon after I stopped in to my locally owned Motorcycle Closeout store on N.Oak to check out their helmets. They don't open til 12 noon, so I walked next door to the gun shop to kill some time. Figuratively, not literally. I got to talking with the owner and it came out that I worked at the Star. OMG, you should of seen his face when I said that. I thought he was going to blow a gasket. (Having worked at the Star for quite some time I had gotten used to hiding who I work for. You wouldn't believe some of the things people have said to me when they find out. The Star is hated with a passion and a vengeance in this town and that's just their employees)
Anyway, I asked him what his problem was with the Star. His answer..."It's bad enough that the Star is a pinko-leftist rag and the only newspaper in town, but now I'm really pissed. They quit printing the comics in color." He was mad. He was also in possession of a gun that sat on his hip. I slowly headed toward to the door and left.
It's too bad that folks can't realize that there are a lot of great folks that work there that have nothing to do with what ends up in the paper. Quite a few of them don't like the Star either.
You have to work somewhere and it could be worse. We could be living in West Virginia and working in a coal mine.
Allow me to point out the futility of bottomlinecomdotcomdotcom.com, which can't even keep someone's death straight.
ReplyDeleteThis seems like such a non-issue it's hard to believe anyone would have a tough time with this question. "Beetle Bailey", for instance is so unbelievably uninspired, repetitive and dull it seems like a perfect, quick candidate. And "Blondie". Holy cow. People never looked like that anyway. Talk about insipid. How many conversations about him sleeping late or fixing his hair does mankind have to be subjected to?
ReplyDeleteLike I said, this should be just WAY too easy.
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ReplyDeleteYeah, that guy lost me when he said Michael Vick had been punished enough. They both could use a pit bull to the groin.