Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 07, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  over 3 years ago

    “… and bring Eric Sevareid back with you, Mr. Cronkite.”

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    BasilBruce  over 3 years ago

    And that’s the way it was.

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 3 years ago

    The new Pandora myth .

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    DennisinSeattle  over 3 years ago

    After panel 4, it all goes downhill. And here we are.

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    iggyman  over 3 years ago

    Or just bring back the news instead of opinion sharing!

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    parforden  over 3 years ago

    I would settle for a return of the fairness doctrine.

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    Bilan  over 3 years ago

    And back then, we thought the internet would help spread information.

    btw, I see Rat is copying Pig’s writing style.

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    Leojim  over 3 years ago

    Freedom without a conscience is not good.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 3 years ago

    Cronkite can’t come back; he’s been dead for 12 years. His grandson Walter Cronkite IV, on the other hand, might help as he’s on CBS.

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    pearlsbs  over 3 years ago

    Most people are certain they know what the truth is. The problem is we have too many certain people in the world.

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    salakfarm Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Does that include all the other people who’ve commented here?

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    ronaldspence  over 3 years ago

    Again Mr Pastis exposes the reality of our current system of news gathering and communication. One can hope that the situation will improve but it doesnt feel like it. Read more comics!

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    cracker65  over 3 years ago

    Something I’ve figured out about humans, is that some of us can’t handle the harsh realities of life. So we delude ourselves with drugs, religion, and other things. I’ll take what’s real. Bring up the lights.

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    noahproblem  over 3 years ago

    Al Gore was a genie? Who knew?

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    Radish the wordsmith  over 3 years ago

    Be the change you want to see.

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    GROG Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Not everyone can handle the truth.

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    Sanspareil  over 3 years ago

    The truth is merely a lie that hasn’t been found out yet!

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    Sisyphos  over 3 years ago

    Ya know, that perverse genie looks suspiciously like Cartoon-Boy. Besides, I was never such a “believer” in pompous St. Walter the Truthsayer anyway.

    Let’s blame it all on Pastis (thereby giving Algore a break)!

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    hariseldon59  over 3 years ago

    The magic lamp is yellow with black jagged stripes. Good grief!

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    TampaFanatic1  over 3 years ago

    It would be nice to have a reliable and trustworthy face on the news at night like Cronkite or Brokaw, or Peter Jennings or Ted Koppel but I would rather Dan Rather stay retired though of the 5 gentleman mentioned he would be the one to fit most comfortably into one of the partisan media outlets due to his ego and feisty temperament.

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    GabryelFrost  over 3 years ago

    “More censorship ! Let the government tell me what is the thruth !” …. And those people call themselves Americans.

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    MayCauseBurns  over 3 years ago

    No more news! Everything is sarcastic, like the Babylon Bee. That way, no one treats anything they read as gospel.

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    Acworthless  over 3 years ago

    Except there ARE checks and gatekeepers and everyone CAN’T say whatever they want.

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    waknoch  over 3 years ago

    Walter Cronkite began the downward spiral of the media where no opposing ideas were allowed. Just study his coverage of the Vietnam War and you will understand.

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    Prestondinjax  over 3 years ago

    Walter Cronkite lied about the Tet Offensive in 1968. He called it a US loss, but it was actually a great victory and the Vietcong were destroyed as a fighting force. It began the change of US public opinion and our leaving the war and not supporting the South Vietnamese. Millions were displaced, and Pol Pot was allowed free reign in Cambodia to commit genocide. It was set off by Walter Cronkite. The media lied then like they lied now. Google Walter Duranty to go back a little further to learn about the “unbiased” media and their inability to tell the truth.

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    wrd2255  over 3 years ago

    When Cronkite did an editorial declaring Vietnam a failure, no doubt some thought he was a traitor. But presumably their numbers were fewer, and they couldn’t go tweet about it.

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    jbmlaw01  over 3 years ago

    The way to combat lies is with truth. The way to combat truth is with bans.

    Everyone notice that only leftists impose bans and regulators?

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    mjb515  over 3 years ago

    Which assumes that gatekeepers are telling the truth.

    This entire line of argument leads to the conclusion that freedom of speech and the press are bad. this sort of argument has gone on since vernacular Bibles were printed which enabled people to read scripture without the clergy’s gatekeeping.

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    1953Baby  over 3 years ago

    I tire of this “the news can’t be trusted anymore.” There have ALWAYS been opinions about everything. And ANYBODY who believes any of the following needs their heads examined: 1. the earth is flat, the sky is a big blue bowl put over the flat earth to stop believers from seeing god. 2. a venezuelan operative routed an electronic disruption to exactly six machines in six states ( or four, depending on whom you “read”) to flip EXACTLY 11, 300+ votes from dt to Biden. 3. that two of the most horrendous school shootings in the last 20 years were photo ops. 4. The CA wildfires were started by space lasers owned by Jews.

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    thevaleyard1975  over 3 years ago

    So much for free speech. Just spout leftist talking points.

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    Ellis97  over 3 years ago

    Darn you social media! Your evilness knows no bounds.

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    chris_o42  over 3 years ago

    And the rest is history.

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    vacman  over 3 years ago

    And now you know …the rest of the story.We miss you Paul Harvey.

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    Willywise52 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    And toothpaste won’t go back in the tube either…

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    mail2jbl  over 3 years ago

    And here goes Cartoon Boy bitching about social media again. I know he’s a Gen-Xer; but as much as he bitches about social media and smartphones, you’d think he was a Baby Boomer or something.

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    Zebrastripes  over 3 years ago

    Yep! Bitter sweet! I never did throw away my pad and pen!

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    grocks  over 3 years ago

    Fits well with today’s Non Sequitur https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2021/02/07

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    Spence12 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    If only we had some sort of Minister of Truth or Truth Czar. Yes, that’s what we need. A gov’t employee that tells us only the things he wants us to know…. Nothing can go wrong, can it?

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    logophiles  over 3 years ago

    I would rather let the crazies speak, so we can see how crazy they are. Once you start suppressing voices, they go underground and become even more dangerous. Censorship is rarely a good thing.

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    wwward1948  over 3 years ago

    Sponsored by the CCP.

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    kartis  over 3 years ago

    If we implement power-over-IP we can send electric shocks over the Internet. Pavlov rules.

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    tripwire45  over 3 years ago

    Without any checks or gatekeepers? Somebody hasn’t been paying attention to Facebook and twitter lately.

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    raybarb44  over 3 years ago

    I thought that some megarich computercrat sold his soul to Satan and this was the result….

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    PuppyPapa  over 3 years ago

    What? A world where anyone can say what they want? What sort of nightmare is that?!?!

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    ajr58(1)  over 3 years ago

    Giant Space Lasers, anyone?

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    victoria2  over 3 years ago

    When news was presented by a ‘reader’ we were a bit better off. The elimination of the ‘reader’ and its replacement by a ‘commentator’ (sometimes common-tater…but that’s a different kettle of worms) sounded the death knell for an informed population. We are definitely in Samuel Clemens’ scenario where a person who doesn’t read the newspaper is uninformed and the person who DOES read the newspaper is misinformed. (I think I’ve shown great restraint here where Profanity is the crutch of the inarticulate….)

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    rikwriter  over 3 years ago

    What a crock. Yeah, what we need are “gatekeepers.” Appointed by whom? The government? Good, and then what they allow will change every 4-8 years and THAT will make everything better. Gatekeepers for intellectual property are never a good thing because you’re always surrendering your freedom to the whim of another. Liberals always think THEY will be the gatekeepers and never consider that the pendulum swings both ways.

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    COL Crash  over 3 years ago

    That’s how a seemingly good idea can have disastrous second order consequences.

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    Flossie Mud Duck  over 3 years ago

    I, too, miss Walter The Cronkite.

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  over 3 years ago

    Kind of like the monkey’s paw story. (Don’t imagine the past was better. I think Past generations were less willing to be gullible. And had their priorities straight. And didn’t feel they had to know everything.)

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    vernm616  over 3 years ago

    Are you kidding? Walter Cronkite invented “fake news”. My friend called him “Walter the Red” back in the 70’s. Then came Dan Rather who embellished the news to make himself look more heroic for being there to report it. Impartial news reporting left us more than 70 years ago.

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    Keno21  over 3 years ago

    Yes, MUCH better to have only enlightened people be allowed to express their own opinions, and silence anyone who has a different opinion.

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    Chazz1287  over 3 years ago

    Another comment from one of the stupids.

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    Ukko wilko  over 3 years ago

    Cronkite was as guilty of slanted and untrue reporting as others of his time. He just had a presence and reputation that let him get away with it.

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    theoldidahofox  over 3 years ago

    Whatever is invented liars, crooks, stupids, and mental defectives will find a way to pervert it from its positive intended uses.

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    hooglah  over 3 years ago

    I would settle for liberals that weren’t imbeciles.

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    Andrew Bosch Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Walter Cronkite and Art Linkletter! Hmmm. That genie looks suspiciously like Stephan Pastis!

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    marilynnbyerly  over 3 years ago

    I have to smile at the naive belief that then news has ever given the whole truth instead of one take on it. The real world and its events are too complex for that.

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    Dis-play name  over 3 years ago

    How did the first two panels ever get by the Censors ? !!!

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    zeexenon  over 3 years ago

    He was OK, but no Edward R. Murrow - good night and good luck. Joe McCarthy, burn in heck!

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    michael3114  over 3 years ago

    I would wish for a world without stupid people. It would solve the population problem as well.

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    alexius23  over 3 years ago

    I miss “Uncle Walter”

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    Eric S   over 3 years ago

    You forgot “bloggers” who think they are journalists

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    kd1sq Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I’d be happy to settle for Dan Rather given the Charlie Foxtrot we have now…

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    dfrost1  over 3 years ago

    Woohoo! Let’s ban the first amendment! And the rest of the constitution because it is racist or something!

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    Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Guess he never got the genie back in the bottle.

    Good night and good luck.

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    ItaliaNicholas  over 3 years ago

    Everyone has always been confused and angry since the dawn of civilization; the internet just made it easier.

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    Buoy  over 3 years ago

    It could work, but you know, people; if only we could learn to think for ourselves critically and have a moral backbone. Sigh.

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    jtrevor99  over 3 years ago

    Is that you, Al Gore?

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    The Sinistral Bassist Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Pastis is a pathetic sap wanting to be spoon-fed information because he’s too lazy to think for himself or simply incapable of it.

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    christelisbetty  over 3 years ago

    Congratulations, such fine examples of today’s strip.

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    WilliamDoerfler  over 3 years ago

    Unlimited free speech is fairness!

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    AndrewSihler  over 3 years ago

    “Pandora’s Bottle”? Demon Rum, maybe?

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    RichardMetropolis  over 3 years ago

    Super bowl anyone? Brady or Mahoms

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    CoffeeKitty37  over 3 years ago

    Soooo true.

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    DCBakerEsq  over 3 years ago

    The Internet, huh? Not unlike Soylent Green, it’s made of people.

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    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sGArqoF0TpQ

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    Laurie Stoker Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I remember. Walter Cronkite, barely. When President Kennedy was assassinated and when John Glenn walked on the moon. That man was the most trusted man in the world.

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    AndreasMartin  over 3 years ago

    And then the box of Pandora was slammed shut, and all that remained in it was hope.

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    JCooper.Brooklin  over 3 years ago

    This is not a genie situation. It’s a monkey’s paw.

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    AtariDragon  over 3 years ago

    That little mustache doesn’t look good on Al Gore.

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    Themanofoor54  over 3 years ago

    80th comment

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