Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 22, 2021

Live it, or live with it.

Better than being cynical, hard-bitten, corrupt, craven, self-serving, elitist POLITICAL scum!!

The otherwise unqualified term “journalist” covers a lot of types: Twain, Poe, Mencken, Bierce, Thurber, Benchley, Hunter S Thompson, Charles Kuralt. Even Clark Kent. I say wing it.

Read “The Murrow Boys” by Cloud & Olson. An excellent primer.

He´s going as a journalist, isn´t “should I have a drinking problem” kinda redundant?

Money will make everything better, until it makes everything worse.

Elmont would make a perfect republican, flapping whichever way the wind blows as long as there’s a perceived advantage to the self.

Barely…

I wonder if Elmont is Zeke’s father….

He has a choice. Be Gene Kelley in “Inherit the Wind” or Robert Redford in “All the Presidents Men”.

If you pay him, and he stays bought, he’s honest, not corrupt.

Trudeau is being precognitive here.In the FOX NEWS era,any unqualified idiot can call themselves a “reporter” and get away with it.You used to have to have talent.

On a lighter note,there’s an article in the October 19,2021 NY TIMES science section.Aboutsea otters.In British Columbia.

It has been determined that the sea otters digging for clams also stimulates sexual reproduction among the sea grass plants.

Elmont should be sent there to further study the matter.The lady scientist oned in the article has devoted 40 years to this project.

Gotta love Elmont’s attention to detail.

This strip was from ’96. The more things change the more they stay the same!

So,… what’s the difference between Elmont and today’s media reporters?

Gary Trudeau in the Guardian you are an absolute delight

I think Elmont shows a natural aptitude for the job of Drunken Journalist.

They just better not make the mistake of giving him an Expense Account.

Well, then he won’t require any training, he’s probably already over qualified.