Discussion

By Joe Treacy on Dec 09, 2022

Yes, it is really sad to hear. Parade has quite an illustrious history, well before I discovered it in the ‘60s. As Frank mentions, lots of great, fun columns to grab and hold reader interest. Walter Scott’s Personality Parade was one. And of course, any inserts like Parade that were even reasonably semi-gloss (or whiter paper), always made a great, welcome contrast from workaday newsprint.

By Susan Baker on Dec 09, 2022

I worked for the JournalPapers ("The Donut, Not the Hole") regional papers in MetroDC in display advertising and special sections design - loved the immediacy of news to print. This makes me sad that the drive to put available information online only gallops apace. Being snarky, I wonder what will happen when/if "the grid" goes down?

Thanks, Frank, love your commentary.

By James Kohler on Dec 12, 2022

Hard to believe “getting” the Sunday edition of the New York Times on my iPad! For years we got USA Today but I recently cancelled it as it shrunk to almost a few pages (it seemed). Being an old guy I still love the newspaper; but our local paper in Erie PA shut the presses down several years ago. The reporters still work out of the building and a sign for the paper is still there but the main part of the building is operated as a shipping company! The local paper is printed out of town and shipped in. As a young RIT Printing student I remember visiting the Democrat & Chronicle in Rochester - observing the HOE web letter press and 8 or 9 Linotype machines going round the clock.Paper arrived on train cars underground in the old subway station (yes, ROC had a subway when I was a very young kid). Sad indeed.

By Joe Webb on Dec 12, 2022

Gosh.... are you reading one of my old columns? :)
And people used to call me "Dr. Doom" :)