Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 05, 2023

Twitter is where you go to confirm your lies.

The Earth is flat! Spread the word!

Pig should read an article titled “How to be a Better News Consumer” by writer Sunny Sea Gold, published in the Scientific American on May 1, 2017. A great piece written with no political bias!

not every story is true, especially on the tower of Babel we call the internet!

Journalism? You means those paid propaganda peddling peoples? Sure me remembers them.

Who cares if it’s true?

Been a while, hasn’t it, Pig?

Ironically, Stephan thinks journalists do their job these days.

Journalism is a lost art these days!

It’s not any less true than most modern journalism.

Rat loves slander, whether it’s true or false.

“All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.”

—Will Rogers

So called Journalism is now more snarky than Twitter only obscurely hidden. BTW… The Count has never seen Twitter.

Does SP not realize journalists are some of the worst offenders with this?

Ironically, the people who are most likely to complain about the lack of journalism gravitate to Fox, which is just open propaganda. And favor a for-profit news model that has no rules, which (of course) makes it worse than ever.

There is no journalism. All news agencies publish opinion pieces that support their political and social views.

Another lecture on the evils of social media and the virtues of journalism. This strip was so much better when it was making fun of “Family Circus”.

…and it’s getting worse…people can’t think for themselves anymore! They rely and believe on fabricated lies and conspiracy theories …

Dumbing down AMERICA!

So sad this is true…

I remember journalism. I’m sad it’s mostly passed.

Everybody with a cell phone is a journalist now

“It doesn’t have to be true any more. It just has to be clickbait.”

-George Washington

If it’s on social media it’s almost certainly false.

The goat drinks tea!

I’d read THE DAILY PLANET,except it isn’t real

The crazy stories can be entertaining.

Good young American journalism greed.

Breaking News: The MOON landing never even happened! lol …9/10

right?

Yeah, doesn’t ring a bell to the creeators of Twitter and Facebook either. Or to the millions who use them.

I thought it was a square world!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Square_World

How does a lie get halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on? All the people who feed it.

Pig’s profundity captures the day, though I’m so old that I actually can remember journalism….

Yeah, I remember journalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Minutes#Controversies

Do flat-earthers worry about global warming?

I call it the Faux News drive-by: Scream it 2 or 3 times in a headline and retract it later on the back page a week or so later.

He told you to look at this crazy story. I wouldn’t call that spreading it around, or in any way implying that he thinks it’s true