Comments on: Monterey Herald drops Candorville, WRITE IN NOW! http://candorville.com/2009/12/21/monterey-herald-drops-candorville-write-in-now/ Challenging the Law of Gravitas since 1993 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:40:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Darrin Bell http://candorville.com/2009/12/21/monterey-herald-drops-candorville-write-in-now/comment-page-1/#comment-5489 Darrin Bell Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:05:18 +0000 http://candorville.com/?p=2800#comment-5489 I think the operative part of "newspaper" is "new" and running comics whose original creators have passed away is the antithesis of that. Imagine if other media did the same. Your prime time TV lineup would consist of third-generation versions of "I Love Lucy," "The Honeymooners," "Leave it to Beaver," and maybe "All in the Family." But all those classics would be written by different people. They'd be pale shadows of what they once were, and there'd have been no room to create NEW classics like Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, How I Met Your Mother, etc... Imagine if the newspapers did the same thing with their columns. Instead of Eugene Robinson or Debra Saunders, the papers would still be running Mark Twain and Herb Caen (written by other people pretending to be Twain and Caen). I wouldn't read that newspaper. I think the operative part of "newspaper" is "new" and running comics whose original creators have passed away is the antithesis of that. Imagine if other media did the same. Your prime time TV lineup would consist of third-generation versions of "I Love Lucy," "The Honeymooners," "Leave it to Beaver," and maybe "All in the Family." But all those classics would be written by different people. They'd be pale shadows of what they once were, and there'd have been no room to create NEW classics like Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, How I Met Your Mother, etc…

Imagine if the newspapers did the same thing with their columns. Instead of Eugene Robinson or Debra Saunders, the papers would still be running Mark Twain and Herb Caen (written by other people pretending to be Twain and Caen).

I wouldn't read that newspaper.

]]> By: Darren http://candorville.com/2009/12/21/monterey-herald-drops-candorville-write-in-now/comment-page-1/#comment-5483 Darren Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:09:34 +0000 http://candorville.com/?p=2800#comment-5483 Darin, what comic do you think The Herald should drop instead? Darin, what comic do you think The Herald should drop instead?

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