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  • Re: Gannett Newspapers Gut Op-Ed Pages

    From Dave Van Domelen@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 4 05:13:15 2022
    No great loss here. Once Gannett took over the local paper here, they decided that only hard right wing editorial cartoons would run in it, since this is a deep red congressional district. Prior to the takeover, though, it had been much more even-handed, and included some actually funny editorial cartoons. Now it's three crappy right wing cartoonists and a bunch of nationally syndicated columns like Michelle Malkin's. Shoving that all into the Sunday paper and letting local editors actually put back some local
    content in the dailies...well, it can't be worse.

    Dave Van Domelen, doesn't like Gannett, they wet their nests.

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  • From D.D.Degg@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 3 21:20:33 2022
    When we noted earlier this week that The Canton Repository
    was drastically cutting its editorial and opinion pages
    (with a corresponding cut of editorial cartoons) we did note
    it was a Gannett newspaper. What we should have realized
    is that if one Gannett newspaper makes such a major decision
    it is probably a company-wide dictate.

    Thus we have seen a number of Gannett newspapers follow suit,
    though the explanations and days of editorial cutbacks seem
    to be left to the individual editors. But basically syndicated content
    (columns and cartoons) will dropped in favor of local content. https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/06/03/gannett-cuts-op-ed-pages-to-the-bone/

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  • From Darryl H@21:1/5 to D.D.Degg on Sat Jun 4 04:11:40 2022
    On Friday, June 3, 2022 at 11:20:34 PM UTC-5, D.D.Degg wrote:
    When we noted earlier this week that The Canton Repository
    was drastically cutting its editorial and opinion pages
    (with a corresponding cut of editorial cartoons) we did note
    it was a Gannett newspaper. What we should have realized
    is that if one Gannett newspaper makes such a major decision
    it is probably a company-wide dictate.

    Thus we have seen a number of Gannett newspapers follow suit,
    though the explanations and days of editorial cutbacks seem
    to be left to the individual editors. But basically syndicated content (columns and cartoons) will dropped in favor of local content. https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/06/03/gannett-cuts-op-ed-pages-to-the-bone/

    Can't Doonesbury (daily reruns), Mallard Fillmore, Prickily City, La Curcaracha, and maybe Candorville (off and on daily reruns) be part of Op-Ed?

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