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   templo SUD said, 3 months ago

   Grade Zed must be the Canadian equivalent to US R or something.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago

   Too bad that the news is so sanitized now you still wouldn’t know that people were really hurt. It is terrible to soft peddle hard news.
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   pouncingtiger said, 3 months ago

   Too much SEX in the Canadian News?!?
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   Nabuquduriuzhur said, 3 months ago

   re: night-gaunt

   Yep. when I was in Portland, the local news would blithely mention almost every day some gang shooting. Over a thousand homicides in 1995 alone, but it was business as usual to them.
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   I lived about ten blocks from where the city got nuts. Twice I woke up late at night/early morning to some gangster shooting. Single or double shots from a pistol. You fervently pray that no one just got killed, knowing it probably had just happened.
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   The news never seemed to care.
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   Today, Portland has few “safe” neighborhoods because of that attitude of “well, it didn’t affect me, so why should I care?” Crime took over one neighborhood after another, but it took 30+ years.
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   Lakegal said, 3 months ago

   Wonder what year this is from where Elly is using a typewriter?
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   lightenup said, 3 months ago

   Ugh, I don’t want to watch the local news anyway. Too depressing. I’ll get my updates on the status of the world from the Internet (okay, from the newspaper when this was printed in the 80’s).
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   ronald rini said, 3 months ago

   It more like the national enquire than news
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   masnadies said, 3 months ago

   Our local news is terrible for this. Everything is about shootings and car crashes, grieving families, food poisoning… I won’t let myself watch it. Almost nothing is what I’d consider “news”, which is trends, what people are doing to help, etc.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago

   Lynn’s Notes:
   Even during the 80’s there was stuff on the television — even the news — that I thought was too graphic to be shown or discussed during the daytime. We all want to shield our youngsters from sex and graphic violence but nowadays, it’s nearly impossible. The trick is to try and explain that there is good in the world, real intimacy is not ugly, and that justice (especially here in North America) is possible. God willing!
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago

    I generally watch national news over the local variety myself.
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    SUSAN NEWMAN said, 3 months ago

    @Nabuquduriuzhur

    Is that Portland, Oregon or Portland, Maine?
    When I moved to the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 1978, crime, drug dealing, and prostitution were pretty wide-spread.
    That changed when the honest citizens (with help from the police) rose up en masse and drove the low-lifes out.
    On the flip side, the neighborhood was taken over by rich Yuppies.
    Nowadays, it’s becoming so damned upscale that many of us fear that it may become like the elitist Upper East Side!
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    Mstreselena said, 3 months ago

    @Night-Gaunt49

    My complaint is when they trump up nothing as news, starlets drunk, athletes/actors cheating on spouses, public filghts, and all the other worthless “news” that they try and pawn off on us.
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    SUSAN NEWMAN said, 3 months ago

    Y’know, the punch line of today’s strip is VERY old!
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    BarBaraPrz said, 3 months ago

    @templo SUD

    It means scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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    mabrndt said, 3 months ago

    @SUSAN NEWMAN

    Given the populations, if there actually were 1,000 homicides in 1995, I’m sure it was Portland, OR. A 2% murder rate would have made a kink in the nearly horizontal line for Portland, ME.
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