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Here Comes the Judge: Reader Protests Bring Back Comic Strip
By
Harry Jaffe
Published Friday, April 17, 2009
When the Washington Post killed its Sunday Book Review section, some readers complained.
When the Post folded the Business section into the A section, there were a few murmurs.
When the daily decapitated the Judge Parker comic strip, readers revolted.
“We received hundreds of passionate e-mails,” a top Post editor told The Washingtonian. “The readership may not be that high, but what we underestimated was the intensity.”
Judge Parker is different from most other comic strips because it is serialized and has a strong story line. Readers addicted to the stories got through to Publisher Katharine Weymouth.
Judge Parker will return to the Post on Monday.
Lesson for readers who want to protect a favorite piece of the Post that might get lopped off in the current era of shrinking newspapers: protest, protest, protest. And try to get through to the publisher.
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Very happy that the Post management and Editors listened to the readers who missed Judge Parker.
It should’ve never been taken out. Thanks, WaPo!
Posted by: Tommy, Apr 19, 2009 08:13:14 PM
Since Real Paper Newspapers are considered the audience of 50 year olds or Better. Isn’t it bad from to shrink everything. Our eyesight betrays us along with the shrinking newspaper. If the Baltimore Sun shrinks any further it will be on a roll of toilet paper.
I miss the sound of thud of the old Sunday Washington Post on hitting the doorstep. It was almost as big as a phone book.
What a shame.
Posted by: Betrayal, Apr 18, 2009 06:31:32 PM
Yeah! Glad to see the Judge is coming back to the comics in the WaPo!
Thank you, Post Management!!!
Posted by: Charlie, Apr 18, 2009 08:50:31 AM
Special thanks to Katharine Weymouth and Marcus Brauchli, the Post’s Publisher and Executive Editor. The carefully and thoughtfully listened to the pleas of Judge Parker readers.
Thank you for putting it back in the Post.
Posted by: Dave, Apr 17, 2009 08:42:31 PM
Thanks to those who took the time to write. I had missed the strip and wondered. I didn’t hear that strips were being cut; one day they were tiny and "Judge Parker" was missing. I would like "Mary Worth" back also. JB spoke for me when he mentioned the story line and the characters being addicting. It’s one of the reasons I look at The Post daily! But if you other folks hadn’s protested ... thanks on behalf of me!
Posted by: Joya, Apr 17, 2009 08:34:50 PM
Of the five or six comics the Post cut, Judge Parker was a secret daily addiction that I liked to follow. I enjoyed the characters and the stories that they told.
Plus there is a new artist drawing Judge Parker for the last few years who has really made it look good. Too bad the Post shrunk the comics pages.
Posted by: JB, Apr 17, 2009 03:51:14 PM
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