raise the price ten cents
Posted on 08/01/2018 7:29:19 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
RALEIGH, N.C. — Residents in a North Carolina town hoping to read “Rex Morgan M.D.” with Sunday coffee are in for a rude awakening. And a newspaper says it’s all President Donald Trump’s fault.
The Robesonian in Lumberton announced it’s dropping an eight-page color comics section from Sunday editions.
A newspaper editorial last week said it made the “not-so-funny” decision to cut the comics because of rising costs spurred by Trump administration tariffs on Canadian newsprint.
“This newspaper has made the difficult decision to drop the Sunday comics, a decision that we really believe was made at the White House,” the editorial said.
Instead, the newspaper will run a single page of black-and-white comics and puzzles. Absent from the downsized lineup this past Sunday were familiar strips such as “Rex Morgan” and “Funky Winkerbean.”
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Here’s an idea... let the paper industry thrive again here and let them clear out the forests that are overgrown and burning up the west, killing animals and ruining the landscape for generations.
Robeson County has one of the worst crime rates in the entire state of North Carolina. It is definitely NOT a safe place to live.
President Trump is on the side of law enforcement and trying to rid our nation of the M13 gangs and other illegal alien criminals.
That newspaper should concentrate on these accomplishments and initiatives of the Trump administration and stop the whining about the comics.
““This newspaper has made the difficult decision to drop the Sunday comics, a decision that we really believe was made at the White House,” the editorial said. “
Stupid liberals can’t even take responsibility for their own decisions.
“The Robesonian editorial acknowledged that newsprint costs aren’t the only challenge it faces. Like other newspapers, it’s taken a hit from shifting reading habits that have led to a decline in advertisers and readers.”
The internet is wiping these obsolete rags from existence. Not President Trump.
raise the price ten cents
Make the paper industry great again.
“Print is dead.”
Seems to me they have much bigger problems in Lumberton
Do they think it is grounds for impeachment? Idiots.
Better yet, why don't they print their newspapers on paper bags since that's the only bags that the nanny states will be letting you use. Or, print it on paper straws. Can you imagine trying to read today's editorial while sipping on your straw?
Wrong! It’s because not enough people are willing to pay for their fishwrapper!
That they can read it online like everything else in that rag?
Wow it’s like they want to replay the Fiorella La Guardia scenario as precisely as possible.
Newspapers killed off the Sunday comics long ago. Made em smaller, and less of them. Needed the pulp for ads.
Shut down the whole paper and save a lot more money, while also saving the trees.
Was it named after Paul Robeson, the Black Commie Actor?
The last time I picked up a Sunday paper (you can tell that it’s a declining habit with me)....I looked at the comics section. It was about 50-percent of what you would have gotten in 1977. Sunday comics have been dying for forty years.
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