Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 11, 2013

Wait … what is this “news … paper” of which you speak?

This is all sad but true.

He didn’t try PBS or the BBC. The least crappy of the lot.

She’s talking about the Washington Post, I imagine

Trudeau hits the nail on the head again, as the old proverb says.

As compared to????

Actually, it is healthier and happier to go on a “news fast” now and then. Very little of the news is actually important: e.g. requires action on our parts, or prepares us to take action. Apropos of nothing in particular: I just saw some interesting research. Pessimists, it appears, are better than optimists at predicting outcomes; but optimists are healthier, happier, succeed better, and live longer. Attitude has real-world consequence. Negativity can be a drug which, when used to excess, tears you down.

When this happened in Bloom County they took a Dandelion Break. Opus is waiting for you Mike.

Pick one. Believe blindlySigh

I guess he doesn’t watch The Daily Show!

I would rather be a pessimist than an optimist because if you.re an optimist and something bad happens, you’re disappointed, but if you’re a pessimistand something bad happens, you can always say “I told you do!”

Wonderfully timely the 2nd time around, with Bezos buying up the WaPost. Looking forward to September 1st!

Yep,“off the grid” isn’t as hard as some people think. Turn off the tv, plug the phone in, set the computer to re boot, then GO OUTSIDE!

oh the light, it burns my eyes…that’s called “The Sun” dear.

Besides the point he’s making, I love the double entendre in the last frame

I think editing by exclusion happens everywhere to some extent. I don’t have cable, and I’d never actually watched Al Jazeera until a year or so ago when I was killing time in the Hong Kong airport. I was pleasantly surprised at the depth and apparent balance. Now I look for it on hotel cable television wherever I go, but it’s rare in the US (and outside the US, it isn’t always available in English). Through airport and hotel televisions, I also found that CNN had become worthless, except for Christiane Amanpour.

Bit of a crapshoot, but other countries have no MSNBC sitting around discussing their cars, they mostly get news, even if most have biases and ignore certain stories like they do in America; at least their is news on, unlike MSNBC and others.

Crossbar as in electromechanical clickety clack switcher ?

Gah – I’m having newspaper withdrawl! It’s just not the same trying to gather intelligent news off the internet.

garry: I vote socialist. Just wish W was still president so you could cover all the phony scandals in your comic strip.

And soon to come……al Jazerra. oh, boy.

“Sounds like it comes from People Magazine or some other well known scientific journal.”

Nope, I saw it too, probably at ScienceDaily, which posts daily abstracts from global scientific periodicals. It’s as reliable as those publications, so YMMV. Most are legit and sound.

I don’t find any of the media outlets particularly useful and avoid them when possible. Looks to me like if you want real news, and don’t speak several languages, you need to depend on your own eyes, ears and memory. Do that and none of the news looks to be worth the paper it’s printed on.

Yeah, I know they don’t bother to print much any more.

How I get my news: TV: Rachel MaddowInternet: Crooks and LiarsPodcast: Sam Seder Majority Report

Fox is pretty good, it’s just that most craps (short from Democrats like they mad Pub short for Republican) insist on treating the OPINION section as if it’s the entire network . . . a syllogism whose effect on the opinion of Fox to their unwashed masses (most Craps) seems to be completely legitimate given that they don’t even know HOW to find the rest of the network. Trudeau for instance seems to have fallen for it hook, line, and sinker . . . without even bothering to have checked if the hook was baited first.

Comrade Adrian, for once I agree with you – TV is drivel for the proletariat.

I remember applying for a job with MCI in 1983 and having to cross the AT&T/CWA union picket lines though they were in an adjacent building. And upon returning finding my car smashed to pieces.

Television news is for people who need someone to read to them, like a bedtime story.

Mike, ditch the TV and tune in NPR! Best news source going.

Then watch The Daily Show to laugh your ass off

I find NPR to be the most objective source out there – no discernible biases + much effort to show all sides, and no screaming and yelling a la Fox.

I find NPR to be the most objective source out there – no discernible biases + much effort to show all sides, and no screaming and yelling a la Fox.

I usually go through a dozen news sites a day. Have no use for either Fox or MSNBC. They are out to promote the political agenda of their choice. BBC has an ant-American slant in my opinion. WaPo, naturally, focuses on politics but in a rather superficial manner. Al Jazeera is a good source for parts of the world ignored by the American media but it seems to ignore stories that might put Islam or Islamic societies in a negative light. An example of this is the story of the Norwegian who was sentenced to 16 months in jail after she reported being sexually assaulted in UAE. Her accused assailant was only sentenced to 13 months.At the end of the day, the best source is still the New York Times. Its editorial page is mostly liberal but its news stories are in depth and balanced. It still practices investigative journalism. It still has bureaus across the country and across the world.

Fox News is not out to promote an agenda, the opinion shows definitely.

The best place for the news is the WSJ.

I do like NPR, and listen to it at work daily. However, it does irritate me that on each issue, they do seem to think the most important part is what republicans have to say about it..As far as “Pub”, I’ve never heard that, but I DO hear a lot of mainstream republicans referring to " Democrat voters" as if that were not a pejorative, illiterate reference.

Don’t worry it will not be long before the only news comes from the official commissar of news in Washington, then you will all wish that you had read the newspapers and supported them so that they did not have to resort to “popular” news, and we remained free.