Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 15, 2023

I try to explain that to people but they rather read the headlines of the NY Post.

This is truly wise. Too often, news makes us think “Oh no, we’re all gonna die!” We should celebrate good things instead of fretting about bad.

What channel is that? I want to watch it!

Look for bad or look for good and either quest will succeed!

How folks WISH that type of news exists.

“Where the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails will be filled with good people.”

I wish he put more effort into drawing… I understand having it more minimalist but just copy pasting them over and over for the majority of strips in a week…

Our local news is like that, more or less, on all channels. Arson, murder, auto accidents, burglary.

Just so I don’t end up on the news.

Yeah… except that the majority of Ukrainians remaining alive doesn’t minimize the significance of those dying in Putin’s war of conquest.

Or the majority of people surviving covid, or any other disease shouldn’t mitigate our efforts to combat them

Or that, as the old Brit saw goes, “I’m all right Jack” doesn’t entitle us to turn it blind eye to those who aren’t.

Reminds me of the Anne Murray song, “A Little Good News.”

Too many people don’t care about good news. Nor do they care about muggings, terrorists or illnesses. They just care about things that are sensational.

I’d suggest an almost infinite number of wars didn’t start.

Also, 2.1 million people being happy and healthy is fine it’s it’s the local news, but a bit depressing if it’s for the world.

Thank you for trying to be a voice of sanity, Pastis.

Silly pig. You look at the news specifically to find out what’s wrong (which is important). But THEN you look at the world around you to see what’s right. You’re just spending TOO MUCH time watching the news, and NOT ENOUGH time looking around you. Balance, my friend.

Sorry Pig, good news doesn’t sell!

Pastis’s genius has never been in his art, which was, and will probably always be, minmalist. It’s in his ability to make humorous observations about news, current events, and society in general. And in delivering silly puns, which we love even though they’re silly.

News reporters aren’t reporting what they should be reporting.

Give the people what they want. If it bleeds, it leads.

Only 9673? What tragedy befell the millions of others who walked in the park?

Surveys have shown for some time that people believe they are in far more danger than they really are due to the negative news that is constantly being blared.

Yayy!!! Let’s promote being ignorant.

I tell people how low crime is where I live, and they don’t believe me. The FBI must be lying about it.

If only.

We turn off the news on the weekends. Amazing how much better we all feel about life and our fellow man.

I dont watch the news at all, works great.

Wait! What “mysterious illness”? Go back, go back….

Unfortunately peace doesn’t sell.

Where is this channel? Maybe I would start watching the news if this was a thing.

Checking the weather and lottery result is enough for me

Mean while, back to the strip‼️

All I have to say is anyone who criticizes the creator of a cartoon strip is petty and if you think you can come up with a new artistic strip DAILY‼️ then bring it on!

Whiners and moaners stay away‼️‼️‼️

Forget the art – what station is Pig tuned in to?

If it only life were that simple.

Sounds like the words of Psalms 37:11 and Isaiah 33:24. Something no human government can accomplish looking at the record of human history.

That may actually find an audience, you know.

Be a nice change.

Meanwhile in Canada, a great horned owl has been attacking skiers. :)

Pig (and everyone else!) should try Amazing Facts TV (aftv.org)!

Refreshing indeed-

Why do they call it NEWs when it is the same old thing over and over?

I know that media’s prime goal nowadays is to make money, via sensationalist headlines, rather than inform. But this is kind of a libertine strip. “Well, my trip was good, who cares about bad things that happened to others.”

Kind of brings to mind this Chris Hitchens quote: “There for but the grace of god goes someone else.”

Yes, please!

Why do you think I’m a 35 year old man playing “Animal Crossing New Horizons???” The only stress is tarantula or scorpion attacks at night!

Pig needs a rest. He can see Attle another day. It’ll be good to be back with Miss Issippy again. :-)

Good Gnus with Gary Gnu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky3qBpt45-o

Well, the problem with the 2 million people being happy and healthy is that’s only 25% of the world’s population. So in a way it’s bad news.

What’s that channel, I’ll subscribe…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKK_pPTpj4U&ab_channel=AnneMurray-Topic

Reminded me of this Anne Murray song from 1983…

Some people in this world are trying to make things better for everyone. Guess which ones.

How many people read the comics?

Breaking News! Today a man went to work, did a good day’s work, went home and enjoyed his family. So far there has been no report of ethical or legal misbehaviour. Our crews are interviewing people who know him or work with him. Back to you Bob.

The rapid fire soundbites without substance are not helping to inform us of anything.

That’s my philosophy.

It’s the salacious stuff that sells.

I like the message… – the drawings are fine

“Dog bites Man” isn’t news. “Man bites Dog” is.

If it bleeds, it leads.

Rat, and sane, should never appear in the same sentence…

Bravo for the point!

I like the way you think Stephan; where do I find that news station?

Regrettably, ain’t never gonna happen, Pig. You are hallucinating that “feel good” news station. It does not exist….

How do you quantify how many wars didn’t start?

Yes!

No news is good news!

I wonder if that would “sell.” Only positive news network?

I like this perspective, but his numbers are not nearly optimistic enough. It is surely billions of people who are happy and healthy. Yes, there are pockets of the world where terrible things are going on, but that is not true everywhere. If a war going on somewhere else in the world is going to make us miserable, then we will be miserable our whole lives, because there will probably always be a war somewhere in the world.

Today in America, 499,999,999 Legal Firearms harmed no one.