
Dear SJ-R
May 28, 2008Dear SJ-R,
First off, let me say that I thoroughly enjoy your publication. While I have never subscribed to it and probably never will, I find that it is an extremely readable publication. I’m quite pleased that this area surrounded by a small city, gets big-city reporting. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed your investigative reporting as of recent. The Chatham school drug story comes to mind. Because of your propensity for quality reporting, I was quite surprised to find that you decided to cut out rather crucial elements of the Mary Worth comic that ran on May 25th. Here in the last couple of weeks, Mary has really been up to her arms in a crisis revolving around 2 fighting brothers. On Sunday, I was unable to figure out crucial details in this unfolding saga. Luckily, I was able to view the comic via the Internet, but I’m sure that there are some folks that can’t afford the Internet and feel like Mary Worth nomads right now. What’s done is done. Hey, you made a mistake. No biggie. But I feel like you should try and rectify the situation by either reprinting Sunday’s Mary Worth and put it on the front page of the comics or possibly on the 2nd page of the main section. I realize that you might want to protect the integrity of your front page. Well , that’s all for me.
P.S. Thank you for not dumping Mary Worth despite the persistent pressure from those Worthless haters.
Onwards and upwards,
N.H.
Thank you for doing all you can to save Mary Worth, the funniest comic strip in the papers (or some of them, at least).
I work for S-JR on the weekends in circulation, and we really do get calls like this.