Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 12, 2023

Is Yoda now a news anchorman?

News. Produced by artificial intelligence. Human journalism doomed. All humans doomed. Soon.

Film at 11!

If this was the biggest problem with news, we’d be in great shape…

I’d make a witty reply, but I’m busy trying to figure out what line to use on my next tweet about Biden’s dogs as a current employee of NBC who worked for the Daily Caller before I landed in the MSM swamp.

If it’s now to the point where we believe that nothing is true anymore, that nothing is reliable, then Fox Fake “News” and the MAGA/Q rabble have indeed succeeded.

Disturbing, this.

ALMOST as bad as people making up their own acronyms.

It seems like a lot of the news is that somebody who’s famous for being famous likes to show her bare body in public.

“We lead with the Mayor, he said …”

Love it when they think they have to put the subject and pronoun together in the sentence. Not sure where this started but all the local channels are saying it that way. “We lead with the Mayor stating…”

Oh, don’t get me started with “We’ll continue on with our next story…”

It’s either continue, or go on, not continue on.

We’re lucky if we can get the darned thing to stream anything with the Samsung memory 100% full.

English is hard.

I think Tom Tomorrow likens this to McDonalds, calling it “Action McNews.”

Mike’s old school, wears button down and tie at home office.

What, no mention of Fox Trash News! Fox News must no longer be news and thus the world must be a better place.

And, if trends continue, consumers choosing news that hasn’t happened yet over news now happening.

“Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra”

“Temba, his arms wide”

I’ve never been sadder laughing in my life

Hmm, Like a bad Chinese to English translation.

Putting bolt to hole, making nut on, done.

Asian languages don’t have all the little bits of European language, maybe the Chinese have taken over the world and no one realizes?

Funny, the newscasters on the channels I watch can still speak in complete sentences.

I really miss the past where news was only on TV and Radio a few times a day unless something really important was happening.. Back then there were only a few hours in a day for news so they only covered important news. There were no pundits because they didn’t have the time for them and journalism back then thought pundits did not belong on a News broadcast.

Since kids aren’t learning how to speak properly and since our attention spans are about as long as a horsefly’s, this seems like a logical development

I wonder if anyone’s done a study on what percentage of each newscast is devoted to useless, uninformative sociobabble.

“And we go now to our correspondent on the ground in East Palestine, Ohio, Gloria Excelsis. Gloria?”

“Thank you, Walter. It’s been a sad, rainy day here in East Palestine, site of …. [insert actual news here] But we’ll have continuing coverage of this as the story unfolds. Back to you, Walter.”

“Thank you, Gloria. XBC’s Gloria Excelsis in East Palestine, Ohio. In other breaking news ….”

I wonder what the next step is for human evolution now that all forms of media have figured out the best way to guide our actions is to keep us in a constant state of fear and anger…

New hire- Alfred Jingle- short and sweet- to the point- details unnecessary- message conveyed quickly- very.

“Coming up in our next segment, ‘The world may end next Thursday’….But first we visit with Chef Boyrdumb at his new artisan grilled cheese diner…..”

“And now, this.”

aaa-aaac-ckk!

The problem with the media is that it gives us exactly what we want.

In other words, Newspeak.

:)

Reminds me of an old Lampoon parody of Henry Luce, founder of Time magazine, who always wrote in an inverted style.

“Backwards ran sentences until reeled the mind. Where all this ends, knows God.”

Chaka, when the walls fell!

Stolen election was. Kidding we were.

Darmok and Jalad, at Tanagra…

“After this, back”. It’s Yoda!

Man in yard, waving cane. Off lawn, kids!

no keyboard or mouse?

I prefer fragments to speed talking…so many radio programs now rambling at top speed…I just tune it out.

Unusual—a dull DOONESBURY

If everything is hear and now why are we talking endlessly about stuff from 2020?

Most of the commentators here missing the point of the comic. News consultants banning verbs 20 years ago. Having reporters speaking in present tense phrases. Only gerunds being used. Hurting my ears.