Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for September 01, 2021

Go for Tom Brokaw.

Always liked that Jennings fellow.

Of course, in 2021 he would have other options.

Young Brokaw is now 80. Jennings died in 2005. Dan Rather got a movie made about him and Robert Redford acted in his role.

And they were the good ones (add Huntley/Brinkly, Cronkite, et al). Wait until you get back to reality and see what you’ve got now. Hint, keep the paper.

Aaaaand Opus makes the wise choice.

What’s that he’s holding in the last panel?

According to the copyright, this cartoon appeared around the same time as Neil Postman’s seminal work.

I grew up watching the news delivered by all those fine gentlemen and now we have the garbage of &ucker Carlson and his ilk. Barf.

I mean, this is so old-fashioned. Does anyone settle in at 6:30 and watch the national news anymore, when we’ve got the news coming at us 24/7 from CNN, MSNBC, and the others? I get my news from Twitter. So shoot me.

I thought Dianne Sawyer was Opus’ “booboocitos” :)

At least back then the newspaper was big enough to actually read and had decent news coverage.

Newspapers these days have mostly shrunken to thin shadow of their former selves.

Nobody better than “Uncle Walter”… ☺

Or the comical jokeresque unique ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus style of Chris Cuomo. Oh my yeah, that’s what I’d choose. But so many choices…

Peter Jennings.

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“Newspapers are an important part of our lives, not to read, of course, but, when you’re moving you can’t wrap your dishes in a blog.” — Stephen Colbert

Isn’t Peter Jennings the one whose post-9/11 stress induced him to regress to his old smoking habit and then he died of lung cancer? Or am I thinking of the wrong one?

Dan Rather posts regularly on Twitter. I recommend following him.

I wonder if there are any readers of this comic that don’t know what Opus is holding in the last panel?

The Wise Old Penguin says…none of the above! The TV is off.