At some point the situation changed and comics ran in color seven days a week. I suspect this was a Hail Mary pass, a last-ditch attempt to hold onto readers. Because while there might be a shinier feature here and there, newspapers as a whole have not been in healthy shape for some time.
And this is a shame. You might think the MSM deserves whatever it gets, and on a national and international level it's pretty hard to defend them. But lack of local media means that local stories frequently don't get covered, and that distorts everyone's view of even the places they live.
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True. One imagines the phrase being met with a Pesci-esque "Funny in what way?" I have to admit that I'm not familiar with the "wet socket" idiom myself. "Pine overcoat" is very vivid, though.
It often seems to me that the medium-to-big newspapers had more resources back then, in terms of both staff and the money to send them places. So that even if they might have had hidden agendas about certain things, they weren't so monomaniacal about following a certain narrative.
The comics were and sometimes still are a welcome distraction, especially when the cartoonist is working at the top of his or her game. I can't think of the exact date and it's not necessarily consistent everywhere, but I'm thinking they started going color in 20-something.
The Providence Journal still publishes but most of its content is from wire services. Glad you still have the Times-Colonist. Wonder how long they'll be allowed to keep that name.
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