Jesus... reading his speeches... this is positively HAUNTING. He's talking about how newspapers are failing because of television's predominance in the news world. Basically he mentions all the problems with newspapers and syndication, and how the art form is being destroyed (and this was in the 80s if I'm reading it right.) So then he makes this suggestion to fix things:
"First of all, we should keep in mind that newspapers and syndicates are by no means essential to the production of comic. There are all sorts of ways to publish cartoons, and if syndicates and newspapers won't hold up their end of the bargain, maybe there's an opportunity for a new kind of publisher let's start with eliminating both the syndicate and the newspaper."
