Comment on Two of life’s pleasures: Coffee and the paper | Letters to the editor

I was very impressed by Bob Eckstein’s opinion piece, “Less local news: Not good news.” I first became interested in newspapers at age 9 when my family lived in Chicago. Back then, major publishers had their Sunday editions on the street Saturday evening. After Saturday supper, my Dad and I would walk down to the nearest newsstand and return with three Sunday papers; the Tribune, the Sun-Times, and the Daily News. They were all so huge, it took two of us to carry three papers. At home, I pulled the comics sections out of all three, and read them while laying on my stomach on the floor and listening to the radio with one ear: Jack Benny, Allen’s Alley, The Bickersons, Duffy’s Tavern, The Shadow and more. One day I discovered that one-panel comics were scattered throughout the rest of the paper.