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Brodner's Cartoon du Jour: Wither Print: 2 of 3

—By Steve Brodner
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Tue March 17, 2009 11:28 AM PST

Today marks the death of the Seattle Post Intelligencer. Published since the Civil War, nothing could stop this paper, except our situation today. Hearst, who owns it and killed it today, promises a dynamic online replacement. What will it replace? What is now lost? Interestingly the SeattlePI.com website has a strong video about what will be lost here. The site, as promised, will feature new columnists: a raft of current and former government officials. What does that feel like to you? I can only conclude that a part of our civilization is lost now unless we can organize somehow to replace this necessary imperfect creation, the newspaper. We cannot function very well at all without it. And we have to do this fast.


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Contributing illustrator Steve Brodner also does artwork for The New Yorker and Harper's.
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      Nostalgia

      Submitted by Raul (not verified) on March 17, 2009 - 8:47pm.

      Why so despondent, ms/mr correspondent? Seattlepi.com is mo betta. What I do miss is the bottles of milk left in the morning by the milkman. Oh well...

      Trollstein

      Its the internet baby.

      Submitted by Trollstein on March 19, 2009 - 6:42am.

      Same comment as last slide. News print is going the way of the buggie-whip. Brod is making it sould like some sort of comprehensive denial of information to the masses. Its just innovation in action. Less newsprint, less trees cut, less land filled.

      Respectfully submitted~

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      Could you be less subtle?

      Submitted by schnitzelschnuggerl (not verified) on March 31, 2009 - 2:13pm.

      Could you be less subtle?

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