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October 17, 2007
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News is dead!
I'm pretty sure the current adminstration currently inhabiting the residence of the executive branch of the government would like that this were true, what with 32% approval ratings. As a wise quasi-man once said, no gnews is good gnews.
Blogs are the future!
For most of us, we live in the present. Here, in this weird and mysterious land of 2007, blogs exist in the present. "Perpetual web columns" live on forever, I imagine, so maybe they're futuristic. Idiotic, at the very least.
Gotta blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog...........
Gotta dance? Sure, why not. Gotta have it? They say she does. Gotta stay happy? Positively.
Everything you need to know about what you gotta do you can learn from the movies. But blogging - that's elective.
Calm down! Most cities have one or two newspapers.
Filled with unethical journalists, so what point is that? They're viewed as less ethical than chiropractors. Back-crackers, for cryin out loud! Who would you think the average crazy person trusts more: the syndicated columnist George Will or the blogging Michelle Malkin? In a city with two newspapers (or more), that's twice the lies!
There are over a billion blogs.
Eleventy billion, by last count.
Isn't it smarter to compete with one than a billion?
Why are you trying to piss off Bob Saget, dude? Is this something personal? Don't drag us into the middle of it.
You're right!
Just another reason to distrust newspapermen. You're nailing your own coffin here, Saltburger.
Fire half the staff and pray we scrape by until I can retire!
Dude's got no time to put the sudoku in his rag, or for that matter, use his position as publisher to fire people, so he opts for seppuku? Is that what's going in the last panel? Thanks for that, maybe we'll have something fresh tomorrow.
I already read that in his blog...
I'm pretty sure that I also read about the old-fashioned pulp having been squeezed to death already on a blog. Stantises's, to be precise: "If you all don't support the intelligent work of Stantis, I'll stop buying your paper." Oh, now you've gone and done it. I can just see the young lady from the comments section there, getting up from the kitchen table, folding the newspaper and silencing the radio. She's jumped the barricades and has headed for the sea. The sea.
Comments
Of course Scottie loves the MSM. Not only does he work for it, but MSM made fun of Gore, never raised serious questions about how Bush's Daddy's appointments to the Supreme Court overturned a democratic election, and accepted the Bush administration's lies on Iraq. The MSM loves Bush, and Scottie loves Bush, so we all should love the MSM.
Yes, indeedy.
Oh, and blogs like Shrubville show what's wrong in the world, because members of the MSM like Scottie should be free to work without criticism or oversight.
Posted by: Annie at October 17, 2007 10:40 AM
32% approval rating? Try 24%:
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1624620720071017?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
What I like is Carmen's amazing forward thinking, but why stop there: would you rather compete against the internet, or the Pony Express? There aren't ANY horse-ridden messenger news services anymore!
Posted by: The Furnace at October 17, 2007 11:11 AM
I'd just like to point out that the Prickly City Peccary's frazzled editor seems to closely resemble the editor of the local newspaper (Milo's boss) in "Bloom County." (That paper was referred to first as the Bloom Blab, then as the Bloom Beacon, and ever since as the Bloom Picayune.) Anyone else notice the strong similarity?
Posted by: Chris at October 17, 2007 06:19 PM
Yeah I noticed the similarities as well. At least he's not cribbing from Mallard Fillmore.
Posted by: The Furnace at October 17, 2007 10:17 PM
