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Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 15, 2003
July 14, 2003
July 16, 2003
Transcript:
"Rat, 'The New York Times' Reporter." "This is ridiculous. You can't write a story from Baghdad if you're not really there." "Dude, I work for 'The New York Times'...I can do anything I want." "What if you need a quote from somebody?" "I'll get one." "Isn't that right, General?" "That's right, Rat."
paulrharvey3 over 9 years ago
Brian Williams?
Jason fox is god over 6 years ago
I hate it when Pastis makes jokes that are only funny to predidused republicans.
Are2Dee2 over 4 years ago
Yep, that’s how it works with the NYT, Washington Post, and others. And this was 2003. Things haven’t changed much, have they?
CokedOutRacoon over 4 years ago
lol sounds like Pastis was reading Baudrillard when he came up with the idea for this strip.
Earls Before Swine Premium Member over 1 year ago
This does sound like Pastis watched too much Fox News or something, but this is actually based on the Jayson Blair controversy, where a New York Times foreign correspondent got in huge trouble for fabricating stories. Now, the Times is generally a reliable source of news and the Blair incident doesn’t really reflect on the paper at large (especially 20 years later, lol) but I think Rat’s line was fair enough satire considering Pastis was probably exaggerating for the sake of the joke.