Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 25, 2020

Clicks equal cash in the internet world.

Look, everybody—I typed something online! I’m a journalist!

Rat baits his “writing” with d-Con, and signs his articles “I’m a riter”

“Made you look, you dirty crook!”

Journalism as clikck-bait. Hmmmmmm.

me too

Modern journalism pretty much across the board.

What’s with them, beer and a brick wall??

I’ve said it before, but Buzzfeed actually has some fine journalists working for them (though not on the clickbaity part of the site) – they’re fine journalists because they actually do journalism by talking to people rather than reading press releases, and going back to primary sources, and asking difficult questions of authorities, and so forth.

Of course nobody reads them.

Click bate sucks!

I completely gave up on news, it doesnt exist anymore. Its just feed your segment of the audience what they want to hear. And its made us all worse for it.

More like clickbait to me.

Same here

check this photo-shopped photo of a celebrity to confirm that the rumors we made up are true. And don’t forget to check this secret that doctors don’t want you to know. And recently, don’t learn pentatonic scales, here’s why

“Here’s one amazing secret for [whatever]!”

On my phone I get a rotating list of news stories I can click. I always stop and look before I click. The most clickable links seem to come from one service, so like the horned gentlemen in the comic, I think, almost journalism, and go on to something else.

I wanted to say something, but I don’t want to add to the sadness that is today’s ‘journalism’.

I wish they’d put more content on each “Next”…

We don’t need the “Weekly World News” any longer, the regular papers have filled that niche!

Very interesting. I’m getting nothing on the other site, but everything is fine here. I’m on an old Mac.

Rat is the very model of a modern major journalist!

…and you won’t believe what happens next!

Click bait can be fun.

In Rat’s case it should be: “If you click, I’ll give you a kick”

Democracy dies in today’s MSM.

“For every click, we get a nick(el).” :)

I bet the first version was “I made you click, what a d…” but that would be wrong, so wrong.

If you can’t see or smell the comic, get tested for the Covid virus.

The Washington Post IS darkness.

Aah, click beetles. HEY, IT’S A RAID!

As a Marylander, the Wash. Post has just gotten pathetic.

Wonder what persuasion profiles they are using.

Fake news

Modern “journalism”! Grrrrrr!!!!

I’ve had no problem seeing my favorite Go-comics using Firefox, and I live in Mexico City!

Huff ‘n’ puff is nothing but darkness no matter what their motto. The usual Leftist distortion and misdirection.

MSM: Methylsulfonylmethane? Morehouse School of Medicine? Men Sexing Men? Methinks thou be addled.