Have any newspapers dropped the Peanuts comic strips from their pages during the past couple of years (since the production of new strips came to an end in early 2000)?
I believe the strip had gone downhill during the past couple of decades and it was high time to end it. Unfortunately, too many newspapers decided to rerun the strips from the period when the strip was going bad. Readers are reminded not of when the strip was good, but when it was going downhill. It's as if the owners of the TV shows featuring Lucille Ball decided to syndicate "Here's Lucy" and "Life With Lucy", which are not recognized as her best programs, instead of "I Love Lucy", which is recognized as a classic in TV history.
Personally, I think the syndicate should not have run any of the Peanuts strips at all--period in order to pay tribute to the strip. Indeed it would have been better had the creator ended the strip twenty years ago. Be that as it may, however, we are saddled with watching reading some of the strips from the time that the strip was going downhill. It's too bad that the syndicators couldn't have been satisfied with just publishing anthologies and operating websites. Enough is enough.
