Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 09, 2018

46.1% of Americans fell for the football trick 2 years ago.

http://pbs3.referata.com/wiki/Pig_seeks_out_Peanuts_characters and http://pbs3.referata.com/wiki/2011-08-12 are prior mentions of Peanuts

AUGH! I can’t stand it!

Charlie brown will never be the same again…

Photoshopped (copy-paste) in!!!

Worst case of peanuts envy ever.

I wonder if Lucy still has that booth.

Perhaps the people have become wise to JoJo’s tricks…….

Try truth instead of bias. See if that works.

That is a really good rendition of Charlie Brown.

Jojo’s been pulling the football trick in how he informs people, but the public is not as gullible and trusting as Charlie Brown anymore.

There’s still such a thing as journalism. I thought it was all editorializing these days.

Unfortunately for Jojo, if he’s like the bulk of the mainstream media these days, it’s a self-inflicted condition. It’s not that people don’t CARE, it’s that people don’t BELIEVE him anymore.

NPR and PBS do credible jobs. You know – the ones they’re always trying to defund.

Moments later, Billy came through leaving a meandering dotted line in his wake, followed by Maggie chasing Jiggs with a rolling pin and a murderous expression.

(Can’t imagine what’s holding up Offisa Pup and Ignatz…)

I’m surprised that so many Fox News folks read this strip.

So called journalists are only relating what they read on the internet. Virtually none do any real investigative work or relate any reality. The Onion and the Daily show are more informative.

Forlorn JoJo.

I would care…if he gave me FACTS instead of OPINIONS.

Dictators and their boot-lickers, whether in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, Stalin’s Soviet Union, or Hitler’s Germany, all hate the news media and blame them for being biased.

You’re a blockhead, Charlie Journalist!

Can he give a report without showing his political bias? If so, I’ll listen!

Jeannie will smile at the nod to Sparky :-)

Get back, JoJo.

Jojo was a man who, though he was a journalist

Knew it wouldn’t last for long

Jojo left his job at the daily paper

To be ‘Shill’ for the Don

Fake News, Fake News

Fake News, it will soon be gone

Fake News, Fake News

Fake News, it will soon be gone

Fake News Jojo, go wrong

Free Range has a Peanuts-related comic today too.

https://www.gocomics.com/freerange/2018/10/09

As there is no 1st amendment protection for lying, what would happen to journalism if reporting lies as news carried criminal penalties?

Today’s “journalists” (term used very loosely) have absolutely no intention of informing us. They just want to stuff their political biases down our throats.

Bias has made Fox Noise thrive!

All my kites crashed too.

This comic was so small in my newspaper I couldn’t tell that Jojo was dragging a microphone.

So Charlie changed his name to Jojo?

That’s a really good drawing of Charlie Brown. I wonder if Pastis practices drawing other comic characters? I know Peanuts is listed as one of his influences.

There IS no journalism, only propaganda.

Jojo’s off on another bizarre adventure.

Charlie Brown was far better at kite-flying than Jojo is at journalism.

Go ahead, Jojo; kick your mike into a tree. Drink a liter or two of cheap whiskey. Become depressive and think about buying a shotgun, like Poppa Hemingway’s….

Unfortunately for Pastis, he put this strip out after the latest round of the press beclowning itself.

Why is pastis so good at drawing other people’s characters?

caught in 4k

charlie brown finally got a job!!

and grew up ‘__’

Every new thing I learn makes me despair for humanity just a little more.