The release says “comic strips” i.e. sequence of drawings. They aren’t talking about the editorial cartoons.
There was a massive backlash against News Corp when they downsized the comics strip section in the metro daily newspapers in Sydney and Melbourne in the mid '90s. When they initially merged their morning and afternoon mastheads, they retained both sets of strips that ran in those papers but eventually decided to get rid of some.
The puzzles page is the only reason I flick through and spend some time with a physical newspaper these days. I can see them getting rid of those given the widespread popularity of games on smart phones having made them redundant. There’s nothing more satisfying to me than neatly completing those puzzles without error.
Agreed, all they are doing is reducing the overall value of the paper, before long they will cut back on the ink by reintroducing black and white pages like the old days.
I sometimes see young people buying The Australian and the Saturday Paper, so I can believe there is still a market for print among young people (however small). However, I would be floored if they were buying newspapers for the comics.
News Corp posted a notice in today’s papers confirming it would no longer publish syndicated comics from Monday, September 12. (This one is from The Hobart Mercury)
While most cartoons that had been published in News Corp papers can now be seen on either GoComics and Comics Kingdom websites, daily strips for Aussie comics Insanity Streak and Snake Tales are much harder to find.
According to Media Watch - more examples of plagiarism have been discovered and Peter Gleeson is now on “personal Leave”. Paul Barry has called for his sacking for the Courie Mail and Sky News.
I hate how they seem to be so stupid and not know that Fairfax is no longer. Across Fox Sports, news.com.au, even the newspapers often credit “Fairfax is reporting”.
