Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for January 24, 2010

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    gimmickgenius  almost 15 years ago

    Hey - I resemble that remark!

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    policelimit Premium Member almost 15 years ago

    I live in my OWN basement, thank you very much!

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    Superfrog  almost 15 years ago

    Will anyone notice?

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    tirnaaisling  almost 15 years ago

    Can it be any worse than the so called real journalists, they are all in it for the sensationalism and promotions, I miss the days of just reporting the news.

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    glslightning  almost 15 years ago

    The days of “just reporting the news” was when real journalists actually did the reporting. Today it’s being done by the uninformed blowhards who seek out sensationalism and promotions because that’s all they can understand. That’s why nearly all of today’s “journalists” are only “so called”. Ratings trump integrity today.

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    Rakkav  almost 15 years ago

    All that aside, I find it interesting that the King has Sir Rodney the Chicken-Hearted(*) as his bodyguard. What would happen if there were an actual armed threat to the King?

    (* my more-or-less original name; the original authors sometimes called him something else, I believe)

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    cdward  almost 15 years ago

    Real journalists were shut out when MBAs started running newspapers. They were interested in getting sensational headlines to attract lazy readers who were gullible enough to buy whatever cra p the advertisers were hawking. The more sensational, the more people bought, and the more advertisers liked it. Don’t blame the journalists, however, blame the business folks.

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    IndyMan  almost 15 years ago

    Amen, to ‘cdward’. I am sorry to say I used to deliver one of those newspapers a few years back. The quality of the paper has steadly gone down hill and they wonder why they are losing readership. Another example–they ‘cut’ the Sunday Funny Paper in half. Why do you think, I’m getting my ‘education’ from this site?

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    McGehee  almost 15 years ago

    Sorry, cdward, but I’ve seen the inside of a few newsrooms. I blame the “journalists” who are too uppity to settle for being reporters. They cover things they know nothing about, get it all wrong, and then when readers stop trusting them, they blame the readers.

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    Brother_James437  almost 15 years ago

    There’s a basement around here?

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    Dewed  almost 15 years ago

    I think one-sided news, and reporters’ opinions are what ruined the news.

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    ossman52  almost 15 years ago

    Sorry, Mac, I believe the journalist answers to the editor who in turn answers to the publisher. All the more reason to be weary of the few owning the many.

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    Trainwreck_1  almost 15 years ago

    Blog blog blog…

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    gobblingup Premium Member almost 15 years ago

    It’s sad. I don’t know where to go for straightforward news, and kids will think sensationalism is normal.

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    kit_jefferson  almost 15 years ago

    The Internet is the new crystal ball - with a vision of the world right in your own home.

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    cfimeiatpap  almost 15 years ago

    http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/603/index.html

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    lewisbower  almost 15 years ago

    Of course a car crash is more important than a Senate vote. If not for murders we would have to think about the new laws. I should hope they would put a celebrity cheating on the front page. And tabloids have photos almost as big as TV. The reporters didn’t cause this, the owners did.

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    bill2759  almost 15 years ago

    I gather from the comments that the Public (Us) is on to the so called real Reporters.

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    johndh123  almost 15 years ago

    amen Mac!

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    davesmithsit  almost 15 years ago

    As long as “people” write the news it will be slanted . It has been since the begining of the written word.

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    policelimit Premium Member almost 15 years ago

    What’s a newspaper?

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    COWBOY7  almost 15 years ago

    Not much change for the Fink!

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    pschearer Premium Member almost 15 years ago

    I pay for these comics and I’d pay for real, reliable news. But not the New York Times.

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    davidwi  almost 15 years ago

    One afternoon I watched on live TV as we all tried to understand what had just happened in Oklahoma. The Federal Building was in ruins and hundreds were dead. Our local news reporter went to a local mosque in North Los Angeles and interviewed someone there. “Why would Muslims have attacked a building in America’s heartland? Was it the dry, arid climate? Is there a large Muslim population there?”

    Only later was it revealed that the bombers weren’t Muslim at all… Now we cut back to the same reporter, at the same mosque, with the same person, only now, in the background, you can see a broken window and he is holding a brick in his hand and holding up a letter with hateful speech. The reporter is asking him, “Why do you think Americans automatically assumed there was a Muslim behind the attack?” This man had the same dumbstruck look on his face I am sure I had at that moment. Gee, I wonder why…

    If we had reporters who would start with the facts and build from there, they would deserve a lot more respect. Instead you have wild rumors (rape and murder in the Astrodome, anyone?) that are eventually overturned by the same reporters that brought up the rumors in the first place. We have reporters who argue with protestors at some rallies and join in with protestors at other rallies.

    So, why not turn to blogs for our news? More often than not (as is the case with Haiti right now), these are people who have actually been there for more than 10 minutes and are able to provide real “news.”

    I say, Hurrah for the blogger, Hurrah for the death of the corrupt media. Good riddance. I stopped watching and reading them over a decade ago.

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