Yukking it up over the death of print media
Editor & Publisher’s Dave Astor took note of Friday’s Non Sequitur comic strip by Wiley Miller:
Astor writes:
Did Universal Press Syndicate — which distributes Non Sequitur to more than 700 newspapers — get any newspaper reaction to that comic? “We had one editor request a signed print,” replies Kathie Kerr, Universal’s assistant vice president for communications.
I cropped in a bit so you could see it better. Find the entire Friday Non Sequitur here. Find the Non Sequitur home page here.
Read the E&P story here.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:14 am
From the Onion a few weeks ago:
Dying Newspaper Trend Buys Nation’s Newspapers Three More Weeks
WASHINGTON—A recent glut of feature stories on the death of the American newspaper has temporarily made the outmoded form of media appealing enough to stave off its inevitable demise for an additional 21 days, sources reported Monday. “People really seem to identify with these moving, ‘end-of-an-era’-type pieces,” Washington Post editor-in-chief Leonard Downie, Jr. said. “It’s nice to see that the printed word is still, at least for now, the most powerful medium for reporting on the death of the printed word.” Downie added that the poignant farewell Op-Ed he recently penned was so well received that he will be able to hold onto his job for up to six more days.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/dying_newspaper_trend_buys