The radio program Marketplace has a segment on the struggles of syndicated cartoonists in the age of print media turmoil. The story starts at about 4:15 in the audio player.
[audio:http://download.publicradio.org/podcast/marketplace/morning_report/2009/06/05/marketplace_morning_report0550_20090605_64.mp3]I still get two daily papers, and last night, through Amazon.com, I subscribed for the first time to The New Yacker — er, Yorker — magazine. I figure it’s the one weekly periodical that should persist in printed form.