Comments on: SF Chronicle discusses their comic selection

By: Eric Burke

Eric Burke — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:19:19 +0000

I bet the readers that hate Lio still read it for the same reason that people that hated Howard Stern still listened to him: to hear what he said next! Or in Lio's case...what creepy thing he did next! If it continues to give those perps a reason to hate Lio, then carry on...

By: Scott Metzger

Scott Metzger — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:46:26 +0000

“Hardly 80% of their readership. In fact, they might have received 10 letters that mentioned LIO, and of those 10, 8 said that disliked Lio.
And thatâ€™s how decisions are made at newspapers.”

So true.

And I bet “the other 20 percent” who like Lio are from the exact demographic The Chronicle wants to attract as readers.

By: Mark Tatulli

Mark Tatulli — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:14:34 +0000

Actually, Alan, (not to put to fine a point on the article), but it didn’t say that “80% of the Chronicle reader’s hate it.” That’s a misquote. The article said that they received 200 responses about an inquiry of whether readers liked/disliked CANDORVILLE…and of those received, “80 percent of those whose letters or e-mails cited the strip said they disliked Lio. The other 20 percent loved it. There was no middle ground.”

Hardly 80% of their readership. In fact, they might have received 10 letters that mentioned LIO, and of those 10, 8 said that disliked Lio.
And that’s how decisions are made at newspapers.