Another Brilliant MSM Move

They're slowly killing off editorial cartoons:

What troubles today's publishers and editors is less a matter of subtlety than cost. Faced with declining advertising revenues and evaporating print audiences, newspapers increasingly opt to buy cartoons through syndication, which offers access to hundreds of prints for as little as $35 a week, compared to more than $35,000 a year for a staffer. Faced with such an opportunity for savings, many penny-pinching outlets forget loyalties and lose their honor fast. In the late 1990s, for example, The Village Voice told cartoonist Jules Feiffer that, after forty years and a Pulitzer Prize, it wanted to squash his $75,000 salary but still run his work. Universal Press Syndicate offered the rights for some $200 a week.

When I was a kid, editorial cartoons were one of my first introductions to political debate. They are a precious and vital resource. If newspapers kill them off, they will be committing suicide. But that suicide is already well-advanced, isn't it?