Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 17, 2017

What about the dog from yesterday?

Oh, there’s a great way to make people care about what you write. It’s simple:

LIE.

Doesn’t rat mean disinform?

After so much Fake News, I no longer trust journalism.

It doesn’t help when your pouty POTUS claims real news as fake and fake news as real. And then there are the ones who believe him.

“Disinform?” No. “To Rat” means to squeal on, grass, give up, drop a quarter on (archaic), tell on, snitch, etc. Just imagine a Trmpf White House meeting, or press conference.

Leave it to Rat to tsunami on someone’s parade!

I didn’t think journalists informed anymore. Thought all they did was editorialize. Facts are dead.

Romance novels aren’t books, per se.

Darn. I was hoping Pastis would continue with Pig being in dog therapy

If you really want an audience for your writing, start a daily comic strip.

A journalist trying to inform? Now, this strip is FUNNY.

It’s a chicken/egg situation. The majority of news organizations are providing infotainment, not true journalism, because that’s what viewers/readers want, and that’s what advertisers will pay for. Sound bites, scandal, rumor, innuendo, deliberate disinformation, are all grist for the 24-hour “news” cycle.

AHA! A Fake News Peddler!! Get him!!!!

The news media still does have some pull. Take the (very) recent WashPo / 60 Mins. expose of pharmaceutical lobbying to stop the DEA from cracking down on opioid distributors. Trump said yesterday that he saw the report on 60 Mins. Sunday night, and is taking the opioid epidemic very seriously. But even more importantly, his pick for drug czar, who as a Congressman was the “author” of the bill that essentially put a halt to DEA enforcement, withdrew himself from consideration earlier today. I’d chalk that story up as a nice win for the mainstream media.

I didn’t know journalists still existed; I thought Fox News had them all rounded up and shot.

I don’t understand why journalists get so much hate. There are frauds, liars etc in EVERY JOB.

The sooner people accept this the better.

xxx

It’s so much easier to spout off about fake news and to denigrate journalists rather than to engage in critical thinking.

So much work! Must have predigested Russian news!

…but girls do.

Pig is not helping his “friend,” Eugene the Journalist. But the confession of rampant illiteracy rings sadly true….

Trump’s ‘fake news’ strategy is no different than if FDR had tried to persuade the American people to get their war news from Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose

How about a romance journal?