Love Is… Slapped Down For An Incredibly Dumb Outing

This tale of a dicey-sounding Love Is... outing on October 14 is one of those problematic stories because a) I totally missed it, b) I didn't see anything past this one story which when you have something that could be a joke article is worrisome, c) it looks like it was scrubbed thoroughly from both the syndicate and the devoted-site offerings that support the feature so I can't get few-days-later approbation. But taking it at its face value, no, you really can't have a message like that coming out of a comic strip character's mouth without some people getting upset.

The angle this stories shares with some others about recent cartoon work -- and actually a lot of what goes into making newspapers these days, period -- is the thought that really no one is taking a solid second look at nearly any material out there before it gets published. Remember that a framework for the entire collapse of newspapers is that they simply aren't as profitable as they used to be -- as opposed to not making any money at all. One way some newspaper business became so profitable in the first place or were able to maintain their profits during a slower decline period 1979 to 2009 or so is that these kind of screening mechanisms were gutted: either outsourced or eliminated entirely. We should expect stories like this one.
 
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