From a 1981 TV advertisement for the Washington Star newspaper of Washington, D.C.; which ironically bit the dust that same year. Source: https://youtu.be/6WI5t6RnsEg?si=-ANKlHGHqVYzaCjG

Tagline: "Fortunately, there's The Washington Star." Ironically, The Washington Star newspaper bit the dust in 1981. Shortly before The Washington Star folded, a TV advertisement was produced to encourage more readers to subscribe to The Washington Star newspaper. Source: https://youtu.be/6WI5t6RnsEg?si=-ANKlHGHqVYzaCjG

With the news of that evil billionaire goober turdball B*zos eliminating the journalistic workforce of The #WashingtonPost, someone should try to re-establish the old #WashingtonStar/ "Evening Star" newspaper, which folded seven years before my birth.

From 1981: youtu.be/6WI5t6RnsEg?...

A Letter from the Editor From time to time, I devote these Graphical History Tours to reports of books I have recently bought. Having taken my sister to the airport ...

A view from the editor’s desk back in the heyday of #editorialcartooning :

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#history #PaulConrad #LATimes #Herblock #WashingtonPost #Nixon #Noyes #WashingtonStar

Looking at the Washington Star 84 years ago today, and the 29th Infantry Division is about to go on maneuvers in Manassas Battlefield National Park. #pwchistory #manassasbattlefield #washingtonstar #manassasjournal