Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 08, 2024

“You know the great thing about newspapers, that no online news source vane match?”

Rolls up newspaper & bops Danae on her head.

We still get one news PAPER. Weekly. Spouse still buys online access to the website that’s got the label that used to be on our local newspaper. It costs about 5 times as much as the paper one used to, they have no reporters, just stringers an editor and one “email and phone answerer and general steppinfetchit”… shared between at least two, maybe more “newspapers”. I admit I enjoy seeing what she sends me that’s actually local news… but I won’t pay that much for it.

I’ve read some newspapers that at least try, none are deliverable to me in a timely fashion. I’d get one if delivered fresh

It was at this moment that Danae was written out of the will….

You don’t have to charge a newspaper, and if you roll it into a tight tube, you can fend off an attacker. The same is true of magazines.

A Dad was at his Daughter’s and asked for a newspaper.

We don’t do newspapers here Dad. I get all my news online. Just use my I-Pad

Se’s right. That fly never knew what hit him!

I have a subscription to the L.A. Times online edition. It’s so much easier to read from my computer monitor instead of oversize sheets of flimsy paper that I have to fetch from my driveway in all kinds of weather (or not, and thus signaling that I’m not home). Plus, all the articles are continuous, so I don’t have to deal with “continued on page …”, I can extract individual articles and print them out, or email them, I can print out the crossword puzzle (no scissors needed), and best of all I don’t have stacks and stacks of newspaper to wrestle into the recycle bin.

As much as you’d like to, you can’t wrap kitchen garbage in the online news.

The paper dad is reading is dated Dec. 6, 1941. Wait till he sees tomorrow’s paper.

If Danae were a dinosaur, would she be a wannabe velociraptor?

I get the Sunday New York Times and the Detroit Free Press. It’s the best! Online, not so much. Comics are best on paper, too.

Local paper comes out on Wednesday…$1.25….usually it’s only 8 pages….on a big week there might be a filler making it 10. On a really big week, like if there’s a fishing tournament or some other sport it might be 12. Living 40 miles north of Caribou, Maine has it’s advantages.

I see nothing funny about this. It makes no sense to me.

Careful, Danae… You’re one step closer to being put up for adoption.

apparently it’s so archaic that it drained all the color from the house

I get my e-newspaper daily and pay for a version that looks just like the paper version just so I can print the crossword puzzle.

I still get a hardcopy national paper, though it’s also available online (they have two apps, one called “print edition” :-). Been subscribing to the same paper over 40 years and while I don’t trust everything in it, it’s a dam sight better than the locals. And no, it’s not the paper of “news McNuggets.”

You can tell it’s written by dinosaurs due to the use of complete sentences and words that are not acronyms

Mid 1960’s worked for a mid major newspaper in Central VA. Published 2 separate editions daily, with combined Sunday. 2 highly professional separate editorial and reporting staffs. Nearly 400k subscribers plus newsstand sales and mailing. Over several years they produced and home delivered a tabloid sized college catalog that almost doubled enrollment at the local uni. First of its kind on east coast.

Then they became a corporation, which was then bought by a bigger corp that reduced editorial, advertising, production and other staff. Installed out of state call center to stiffle subscriber complaints. Also reduced the paper to something for the bottom of bird cages and litter boxes.

Best if its kind in its heyday. Sad to see an old favorite go that way.

There aren’t any local papers around here and all of our local news sites are firewalled. Hard to decide if they are worth paying for when you can’t see anything.

What would comic strip characters do without newspapers? They make all their witty comments while reading them.

Nowadays they are so small they are called a “brochure” and only used for starting fires in the fireplace (which The❤️Count ❤️s, btw)

I have paid digital subscriptions to 2 international newspapers – The Guardian and The Washington Post – that I read daily, as well as La Hora, a national newspaper here in Ecuador. All of my news sources are online – even local news.

I’d get a paper delivered, except I’m in the boonies. i like the New Bedford paper, but it’s nine miles to pick it up. Burn a lot of fuel, to satisfy an old guy’s desire for a dinosaur blog.

Yes, you can get the same “big” news on line and on the air as used to be on the front page. But, the big problem today is that we have no consistent location for local news. No one place to hear about upcoming local events. No one place to find information about local political candidates or events or issues, especially issues — that local stuff that one might need to know about in a timely fashion. Like plans to rezone areas or close schools, changes in the regulations about building height, fragging, etc.

There was a School Board election in my area a few months ago and the only place one found out about the candidates was on their own political websites [if you knew who was running]. There was supposedly a meeting where candidates would speak and answer questions; but one knew that only by already knowing who was running and checking their website. Not all the candidates showed up — not sure they all knew it was happening either. And nothing of substance was actually talked about — nothing about positions on gender equality or book banning — the two big school issues at the time. Some people first learned about the election when they received the mail-in ballot in the mail. Good luck figuring out who to vote for by then.

Sure, people can spend an hour or two scanning the city website and calendar to information [assuming they are updated daily or weekly], but a local non-government source [newspaper] would help people keep in touch with what will be affecting their local lives.

There are many, many elections going on this year — not just the big one that is on the national news every minute of the day. Local elections, state elections, and congressional elections. We need sources of information about them all, because no matter who becomes President, the rest of the elected officials will have much more power to “dictate” what actually happens to our democracy.

Last week I bought the Toronto Star as a splurge and found out, to my shock, that a daily paper is $4.95!

I much prefer a real paper & ink newspaper, but the delivery here got so unreliable that I finally got an online subscription to the New York Times. Good journalism, but somehow going into a diner and reading an iPad over my coffee just is not the same.

I prefer a newspaper over TV because of: more content, fewer commercials (I do not have to stop reading while a ad is shoved into my face), and I can pick up the biases more easily.

I prefer online mail even more. I can scan headlines. Scan content without having to turn the page or search through the paper to find out where the story resumes, read content without having to turn the page and I can set the size of the print for 75-year-old eyeballs. But MOST of all, I can look for the same story posted by other news agencies. That’s like buying another newspaper or three.

It is interesting to see what the different services have to say about the same story and particularly what they leave out. It’s also interesting to see what stories Fox News reports that nobody else does and vice versa.

I miss getting my daily newspaper. But it’s just not worth it anymore.

I miss the Sunday am papers. Only gave them up because the delivery was often taken by walkers on my road or it was thrown so far off I could only find a page if it blew back into my yard. Oh well. Internet is nice, I DO enjoy reading the comments here (plenty of you are funnier than the comic sometimes, no offense intended toward the comic artists) :D

What happened to the color

Uhhhh, let’s get back to the horse that’s stuck in the tub…..

surprised she didn’t say “whatevs”

Sad that Wiley did not color the comic but I bet it is a comment on how newspapers are printing only on B&W to save costs. I look forward to GoComics to see not only the colorized strip, but the extra panels on Sunday!

I like the black and whiteness of this. I love seeing Wiley’s line work, and I’m grateful for Calvin & Hobbes in black and white. ‘ wish they didn’t colorize Peanuts.

If she is so well-informed (presumably by browsing the internet) and disdainful of his knowledge source, she should learn how to do the task herself.

So my son and I were watching an old TV show and one of the props was obviously made of paper mache and it got me to wondering, can that be made without newsprint?

I live in a medium sized city in Louisiana. We subscribe (online) to one local daily paper, one regional daily paper (with local editions), one online only weekly paper that focuses on investigative journalism (and doesn’t have a paywall), the WaPo and NYT, but I do have a paper & digital subscription to the Atlantic Monthly. I give my paper copy to a neighbor. Though I prefer to read hard copy to a screen the advantages of digital subscriptions are too great. (1)They are easily available anywhere you have an internet connection, and if you’re going to be somewhere where you won’t, you can download your reading material ahead of time. (2) digital is much better for the environment. They don’t require the removal of carbon sequestering trees, don’t create water pollution during the manufacturing process, and less energy to produce and deliver. Less energy = fewer carbon emissions. Finally, unless you mulch them or have a decent paper recycling program in your locality, they end up going into a landfill, taking up lots of space. Support local journalism and the environment. Get digital subscriptions if available.

So, daddy’s newspaper is a ‘dinosaur blog’ (I was once called, very insultingly, a dinosaur) .. but is Lucy still stuck in the bath tub? Or is that a nickname for something else? Can someone please explain?

Starting a rerun week from 2005.

I live in metro Detroit. I pay extra to get the Detroit Free Press in paper 7 days a week. Not what it was, but still good, including a page of comics and two pages of puzzles. I also get two free local papers (paid for by real estate advertising). The Eagle comes every week or two, standard tabloid size. Downtown is like a thick monthly newspaper with in-depth reporting and excellent coverage of any upcoming elections (Q&A for all candidates).