San Antonio Paper Axes Conservative Cartoonist, Keeps Liberal One

NewsBusters.org ^ | Matthew Sheffield

[Nervous Tick]

Sad, but can anyone truly say they’re surprised?

[RatherBiased.com]

I’m not but was wondering if any of the local San Antonio FReepers could report on how the Express-News’s opinion columns are in terms of left-right so I can put that in the article.

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

[pookie18]

Damn! I post a lot of his stuff in my daily cartoon threads:-(

Some recent ones:

[MrB]

The Kansas City (Red) Star has taken to dumping a free paper on my driveway every Saturday, possibly to get me to subscribe, I don’t know.

I’m thinking of reporting them for littering.

[Responsibility2nd]

Nacho Guarache.

A great cartoon. I read the Express News every day and I will miss it.

Nacho was a rare bird. He was a conservative Hispanic fellow dealing with liberal Hispanics in day to day situations.

[SkyDancer]

Would be interesting to see what that Liberal cartoonist draws in comparison ....and also, how long he was at the paper ... here in Seattle we unfortunately have two liberal papers and no Conservative one .....but then, are there any????

[RatherBiased.com]

Both have been at the paper for over 20 years.

[Doctor Raoul]

They want to go out of business, that was the criteria.

[Responsibility2nd]

I thought of you Pookie, when I saw this bad news. I knew Nacho was one of your favorite cartoons.

Naturally, the Express-News is taking heat for this stupidity....

http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/letters/stories/MYSA082107.01O.nachofocus.22e8aa6.html

[ken21]

the l.a. times dumped ramirez

for the same reason.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

When we lived in the Twin Cities, we subscribed to the Sunday Strib. The paper called and asked if I would take the Saturday at half price, since I was taking the Sunday. I agreed.
A few months later the paper called to offer Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at half price. I said I would take Thursday and Friday at half price but wanted Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday for free. They agreed.
Finally, the left-wing content arriving in my mailbox everyday got to me and I canceled everything.
I felt a whole lot better within a week.

[Doctor Raoul]

That’s some really good stuff.

[In God I trust]

Houston Chronicle did the same thing with Mallard Filmore (sp?), a conservative cartoon. It was the only one I would read if ever I came across the Chron rag. Won’t buy it anymore for YEARS.

[Joann37]

They’ve got Pastor John Hagee down there in San Antonio, and he sure never minces words when it comes to the libs! I wonder what he’ll have to say about this.

[AmericanExceptionalist]

here in Seattle we unfortunately have two liberal papers and no Conservative one .....but then, are there any????

Regrettably, very few. The Washington Times and the New York Post are two exceptions that leap to mind. But it is the Post in Washington and the Times in New York that dominate their respective markets--not the other way around.

Come to think of it, the Big Apple's latest entrant, the New York Sun, is pretty conservative too. And Chicago's Sun-Times is certainly a bit to the right of its rival, the Tribune.

But it still is nothing more than a small minority of the nation's newspapers.

[pookie18]

At least you get Mallard Fillmore...for now ;-)

[Tolkien]

Mallard Fillmore is still in the Houston Chronicle.

[pookie18]

I can only hope that Leo lands somewhere else...as Michael Ramirez did...