Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 15, 2022

So Pig has lived his entire life without hearing proverb:

No news is good news

How come Paris Goat never holds his tea mug by the handle?

Sure, it’s possible.

Rebuttal: There is the Good News Network – https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/

whether you look for bad or good you will be successful…

If a country’s population is falling, that is a good thing, but the media makes it sound like a bad thing.

As Judy Tenuta said “That could happen”

It’s amazing how much happier a person’s life can be if the either ignore the news or watch it very sparingly.

There is nothing social about the media. Sound bites generate revenues. The media outlets look only for topics that enrage. Full stories cost money. The reporters rarely fact check. Negative sells.

… and That’s the way it is today.

Pig, that could very well be!

If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed.— Mark Twain

Nah, Rat just likes bringing people down.

Yeah… this is kinda why nobody travels anymore

Pretty profound. More fear, more people glued to devices, sell more ads. Maybe people will wake up.

There’s Nice News.

OK, like Willywise says, tell us your good news folks. Like, it’s a wonderful morning, my lower back pain is gone, the lawn has never looked greener, I slept in, but still got the garbage out before the truck arrived, etc.

You know what the media says, “If it bleeds, it leads”. Bad news sells. That’s why I read comic pages instead of news pages.

There’s no maybe about it. I stopped watching the news ages ago and I’ve never been happier.

Negative posts generate engagement. It is a spiral of self destruction.

Possible? No. A promise? Yes.

I heard the news today. Oh, boy.

I subscribe to CNN’s Good Stuff newsletter. It’s delivered to my inbox every Saturday morning. I save it and look at it on Monday, to give what I call MoanDay, a bit of joy.

Well I say Pearls Before Swine is a good thing so we have that anyway

The more you know…..

In this political climate, maybe it’s not a good idea…

This is why I don’t watch the news. Another reason: because it’s dumb.

I have heard that the thumbs-up emoji is offensive. I think that’s absolutely idiotic.

Is that a rhetorical question?

Good things rarely sell newspapers or generate news time on media networks. Lots of good things do happen around the world and there is probably a market for it but they are fearful of tried and true formula….

Maybe, but not in this comic.

There ARE good things in the world! Rat’s expression in today’s kartune is NOT one of them!

One person’s bad news, may be another person’s good news,(or vice versa). (o8

Rat is proof of your hypothesis.

Good Things are possible in this world?!

Prove it, PIg!

Indeed, there are a lot of good things in the world, wonderful things, beautiful things, heartwarming things. You can find them all around if you look for them. Better yet, strive to be such a thing. Be excellent!

Why not work at fixing the news, instead of fixating on those who report the news?