Scooby Doo is still around in fact my 6 and 7 year old daughters watch it on occasion and really like the cartoon. They broadcast it here in Canada on Teletoons (not too sure if that is a US based or Canadian based station). We were in Ohio on vacation at the beginning of June and visited Kings Island where we went on the Scooby Doo Haunted House ride so he may not be as popular as he once was, but he certainly hasn't been forgotten.
Shaggy still makes me laugh out loud :-).
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.