Truly Apropos of Nothing

Marvin, in his role as media watch dog, has called attention to a new publisher at The Charlotte Observer.

Perhaps unbeknownst to him, Marvin also finds himself at the nexus of another media story begging for coverage. In what can only be described as an eerie coincidence in the wake of the aforementioned publisher shuffle, a company headquartered in Marvin's home of Salisbury, headed by the husband of the recently named editor of the paper of record in Marvin's boyhood home of Fayetteville, has decided to drop The Ivy Bush's favorite political cartoon:

A poll that resulted in a vote to drop "Doonesbury" was defended by the head of a Sunday-comics consortium.

..."It was not a political statement of any kind," Continental Features President Van Wilkerson told E&P. "I personally don't have an opinion about 'Doonesbury' one way or another."

...The 38 papers running the package from Salisbury, N.C.-based Continental are predominately located in the Southeast.

If Hillary Clinton can spin a vast right wing conspiracy theory out of nothing at all then surely Marvin can parley this trivial coincidence into a multi-book deal. Or at least a guest column in what will soon be Marvin's main source of printed news: The New York Times.