Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for September 28, 2021

Business as usual in today’s “journalism”.

Tha fake news runs amok.

Though these old Bloom County comics mocking media excesses were (and still are) hilarious, in retrospect I have to wonder if they helped contribute to today’s misinformation epidemic by promoting distrust in mainstream media. For all their very real flaws, most mainstream media institutions are still far, far more reliable sources of information than things posted by random people (whether it be a celebrity, a “doctor” with no real credentials or your cousin’s friend) on social media, and yet, as comments on this very website prove, many people are happy to declare all mainstream media as hopelessly biased or “fake news”. Likewise, jokes about how all politicians are hopelessly corrupt and useless may have helped lead to people voting for a crude, bigoted and clearly unqualified former reality show host as president since they were convinced he couldn’t be any worse than those already in charge (of course he proved over and over that he could in fact be much worse, but now his supporters are too committed to admit that).

Welcome to the dark Side!

Oooh1 3rd frame: Milo has eyeballs in evidence!!

Is , this guy Berkeley still alive , because all of the cartoons are old . I think this one is 1985 ?

Your right. Having a late stage dementia patient as President is so much better.

Gotta go where the money is; the tabloids

Give us dirty laundry.

Milo is but a foreboding of Things To Come, when the “advocacy journalism” movement discarded any semblance of objectivity….