Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 13, 2010
March 12, 2010
March 14, 2010
Transcript:
Rick: Thanks... Mark: Rick! Rick: Oh, hey, Mark - what's up? Mark: Not much. How's your kid doing in Afghanistan? Rick: You mean Jeff? Mark: You got some other kid I don't know about? Of course Jeff! Rick: Um... he's made an impact. Mark: Oh, right, classified. But I can see the pride!
I can see Rick’s having a touch of a dilemma, here. He’d like to talk about it, maybe report on a scoop, but 1) he probably shouldn’t even know what he does know; 2) he’d be reporting on his own son’s smeg-up; 3) the way he found out about the oopsy probably violates the journalists’ code of ethics.