On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Wolfe, Gordon W wrote:

> As someone who actually -lives- in the Seattle area, (which includes
> Redmond, or GatesVille as it is sometimes called), let me just say
> that The Seattle Post-Intelligencer may be the oldest major newspaper
> in the State of Washington, but it is not the one with the largest
> circulation.  The circulation of the Seattle Times beats it about
> two-to-one, and the Times has better funnies in it, which is my own
> personal major criterion of a newspaper's quality.  I subscribe to
> both papers, partly to see differing viewpoints, but mostly for access
> to more comics features.  There are some (myself included) who would
> voice the opinion that calling the Seattle P.I. a "legitimate news
> source" might be quite a stretch of the imagination.

On the power of commics:
http://www.hinet.net.au/~meggs/History%20pages/History_text.html

This is actually the history of one of Australia's favourites - my
father read it when he was a boy, and I read it now - but it does touch
on remuneration.

And, Gordon can get an extra fix there;-)


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Cheers
John.

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