NY Daily News Drops 1/4 of Strips?

From the oddly named "Murdoch Matthew" of Queens comes the following note that suggests the New York Daily News has used the new year to do something a little more drastic than trying to come up with a replace for Bill Amend's work:

You've had several stories about the comics pages shake-ups following the disappearance of the daily FoxTrot. I have missed a mention that the Daily News (New York City) seems to have dropped a whole page of daily comics. They've gone from four pages to three pages a day, losing five strips and a puzzle.

Comparing last week's sections with those in the 27 December paper, I think the missing strips are Cathy, Agnes, Peanuts Classics, Pooch Cafe, and Girls and Sports. The dropped puzzle strip is Jumble X-Word.

The Daily News runs two strips in their classified section, and uses them to fill in when one of the regular comics page strips takes a vacation. Currently the wild-card strips are Tina's Groove and F Minus.

.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) I've long thought it likely that with the state of the newspaper market being what it is more severe changes like entire pages dropped were on the horizon, but I hadn't thought the horizon so close.
 
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