Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 13, 2023

We’ve been almost there for years with the made up news ( Faux comes to mind )

It’s sad that newspapers are in such decline in America. Along with the extinction of many, we’re seeing a new phenomenon that many of the survivors no longer print comic strips, puzzles, or letters to the editor.

“If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I would not hesitate to choose the latter.” —Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd US president

Don’t forget the sharpie for the weather page.

It’s unfortunate that there are enough different “news sources” to cater to every single idea, all providing the echo chamber of what to think, but no one reminding people how to think. Want to believe that the earth is flat and all statements to the contrary are part of a global conspiracy? Want to believe that Tom Hanks and Oprah Winfrey are among the satanic worshiping cannibal pedophile elite? Want to believe that there never was Covid, and that it was all a ruse to get people to get injections which rewrite their DNA and implant microchips which allow their minds to be programmed via Wi-Fi? Want to believe that celebrities who all died decades ago will return from the dead and get elected into the highest offices of the US government? Here’s your news sources. That crazy guy hollering conspiracy theories on the street corner now has tens of thousands of followers through social media, which is enough for them to get interviewed or a hosting gig on one of those news sources.

FOX airs what the MSM would rather dismiss as Russian disinformation — until proven true. Then it’s dismissed as “old news”, so let’s move on, no retraction required.

Can I get this paper delivered to my home?

If so, will it come with crayons or markers?

“Do Your Own Research” means search for “evidence” of what you want to believe. Too bad websearch is NOT real research.

But mostly thanks to the googles, self-delusion has never been easier. “Evil for ads” is the new motto.

“The writers of books whose contents were controversial were condemned for putting down [pick any] minority. Writers of books whose contents could not immediately be understood by all were lambasted for making readers feel inferior.” Ray Bradbury called this … seventy years ago (Fahrenheit 451). Except that we don’t have the money or the will to build fireproof houses.

Wait, what? News written down on paper instead of in digital form? What heresy is this??

If the takrs gain any more power they will outlaw crayons as non approved reading material; Sieg heil

I thought the idea was to get it from people who knew what they were talking about. Like Sky News and News Corp.

Little did we know that Wiley’s Sunday coloring pages were the gateway drug to next creating the whole paper.

… as Johann Gutenberg weeps.

hey, time to start raising some eyebrows. :D

Joe Biden’s morning newspaper.

You can’t please everyone….

You don’t have to color within the lines, but keeping it at least on the page helps communication. If you want to try expanding your horizons, he might have transparent tape available from ‘under the plank’, for a price. But ya halfta know a guy who knows a guy.

CNN and the Washington Post secrets finally revealed

Add to my “Remember When” List; Literacy was important.

Now you just wait a minute! Are those “rainbow” crayons? Is that GMO newsprint? :)

We’re getting there, unfortunately.

He needs to sell stickers with Tucker Carlson’s look of disapproval.

News has always been DIY. Stories are largely driven by attention they will attract or reporter’s desired conclusion. The trick for individuals is understanding what is real and not.

Like anyone gets their news on paper

The GQP Chicken Cult that thinks OAN and Fox Entertainment Network and Newsmax and the like are 100% factual are out in farce today trying to spread more of the new & improved grape Kool-aid that their masters told them they have to take just like Sinclair has “must read” propaganda pitches that their newsreaders must read on the air or be fired. That my friends is their brand of freedom of the press. Are any of you buying into that today or any other day?

I’ll just be drawing comics.

I’m not surprised that so many posters are mistaking the idea that news is opinion and opinion is news.

News is the same on all networks. It’s the opinion and analysis of it which is tailored to the viewership of that network.

Here are examples of news:

The “weather” spy baloons are flying over the US air space.

An earthquake happened in Turkyie.

Russia invaded Ukraine.

George Santos made up his resume.

There is a shooting of people, by other people, every single day in the US.

A massacre happens at least once a month in the US.

There are homeless people all over the US.

There was a tornado somewhere.

Drug companies created and caused the opiod crisis.

There was a collision on the highway just this past hour.

There is a fire happening just now.

American children are the most obese children in the whole world.

American population as a whole is 70% obese…

Etc. …. All that above is is news.

If you are denying in your mind that the news, that I itemized just now, is not news but something made up, you have bigger problems in your brain than anyone can solve.

So, DYI History has branched out.

No thanks. It’s bad enough getting ink smeared on my hands. I don’t want to get crayon smears

We are there already. It’s called the Internet and social media.

The USA is shooting down UFOs. 3 in three days.

Agree with eastern and now it is getting worse, read WAPO lately?

A capitul idea!

The Sharpie has been gaining in popularity.

The local newspaper removed readers comments. I suppose we could mail in paper, crayons & markers comments. There’s no one left to read or moderate…

And next door is a booth selling pitchforks and torches.

If you’re copying the AP articles,you no longer have a newspaper

The Conservative Media is already there . . .

Who’s trying to please everyone anymore? Seems like they’re all just pleasing one side or the other

Fair reporting isn’t that complicated. Just stick to reporting facts without any sweeping generalising and divisive condemnations, propaganda, lies, dogmatic ideology, and hatemongering in any direction whatsoever, or any convenient hiding of important facts that inconvenience the oligarchy that own them for that matter.

same diff

The GQP rush to destroy the American School System will be the final nail in the coffin for the Newspaper industry.

Who buys a Newspaper when they cannot Read?

Made up news the current press secretary! ROTFLSHIWM

Does Faux = Fox?