OD cancels Dilbert and Doonesbury

[lioneljoe]

As promised, the OD is set to shrink its comic section by removing "Dilbert" and "Doonesbury". To be honest, the only reason why I kept the subscription active was for the comics and these comics in particular. At first, I was surprised that these were chosen, until I considered that the choice to cut these comics is most likely reflection of the high average age of the OD's remaining paper readership.

www.uticaod.com/latestnews/x795262142/The-O-D-comics-poll-Dilbert-Doonesbury-voted-off-the-island

[clarencebunsen]

Not the ones I voted for but oh well.

I have felt that Doonesbury has tended to beat subjects to death for the last several years. Dilbert, I've read since it was published in the EE Times. I'll have to add this to my morning favorites:
www.dilbert.com/

[JGRobinson]

I used to love Doonesbury, had all the books, read them many times.

[Ralph]

The OD strikes again.

[JGRobinson]

Me thinks the OD is in trouble, Im guessing neither of those scrips were cheap. Must be the fees for going to OD.com aren't paying as well as they had hoped. Too bad, I did enjoy that paper and the online presence even if many of the commentators were just bomb-throwers

[dgriffin]

I imagine management at the OD or somewhere higher up is asking themselves questions like, "How many subscriptions will we lose (as the only daily in town) if we drop Doonesbury? How many will we lose if we lower the news/advertising ratio? If we buy cheaper paper, use less ink?
Import labor from the Egyptian pyramids?"

I'll bet the OD is really interested in the numbers for the Utica Daily News. How neat is that? To be in business and make a profit from the news and without bricks and mortar and presses and unions, etc.

Except I have to wonder if UDN is turning a profit. There are a lot of failures in the On-Line News business on the national scene. I would think a local operation would be much more chancy.