Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 22, 2023

So Goat was today years old when he found out how headlines work.

The difference between Fox “News” Channel and a book of fairy tales: One is on TV, the other isn’t.

Aggregators, Left and Right, do need to hype the headers!

it’s all about the “clicks”…Joseph Pulitzer is spinning in his grave!

How is this era different from other eras?

Goat needs to stick to NPR.

Goat seems to not understand “clickbait.”

It’s called “Clickbait” and there is a ton of it!

Exactly this, as they say.

I’m with goat. Several of the news source, which used to be news papers, has turned into total click bait nonsense. Not like outright lies, but they will take news from elsewhere in the world and have headlines that “forget” include location so you think it is something local. Or they will report on some crime with headlines like it just happened, only they do also when the trial for the criminal starts and when there is a verdict.I’ve stopped paying attention to those sites and instead become a subscriber to a real newspaper online, one with actual journalists and management with integrity and pride in what they do.On top of that we have thankfully a state funded, but independent TV/Web news and entertainment broadcaster which I think is a real important thing in our democracy. It is part of why I am proud to be from Denmark, but really there is something similar in many European nations – part of their brief is they must make news and entertainment for everyone, so they also cover narrow subjects. You may know the British version which is the BBC or you may even know some of the entertainment content our DR makes, examples are “The Killing”, “Borgen” and “The Bridge”.

Rat should be a news anchor.

No one likes news. People are literally paid to lie.

News people = scumbags.

I’ve been trying to follow the war in Ukraine. I have great distrust of all the YouTube channels that cover it as I fear many are just creating false narratives and trying to create an income as a YouTube channel. Like the old saying, “Buyer Beware”……the new slogan should be “Watcher Beware”.

Headline has interesting news and you click and nothing about the headline is displayed and if something is, it is glossed over reporting with no details, not even the location of said news story. Sometimes they are spelled right though!

hold on. let me check this info.

There’s a YouTuber car mechanic whose whole schtick is that he tells the truth no matter what. Except he has the most egregious truth-free clickbait titles for his videos EVER.

Neither do I, Goat.

Rat’s big grin says “Ha! Made ya look!” But what’s the point of reading news these days?

Pravda = Truth, in Russian

So, the NEW TAB in Microsoft Edge.

“All the news that fits, we print”

Crappolla, I tell you!

Some of them aren’t even news. It’s “The Tragic Life and Sad Death of” someone who didn’t have a tragic life or sad death.

Goat falls into the trap.

To all Pibgorn followers! Today there i only one thing to say. WANDA!!

Its a competitive business with hundreds of outlets compared to when I was growing up. They can’t make money otherwise

First one has to be astute enough to tell the difference between News and Commentary. Then sample difference news reports and stick with those that have objectivity in their word selection and delivery spin, and whose reports are accurate. If your selected source reports “It’s raining, and because those corrupt city pols didn’t fix the drains, tomorrow it will be flooding”, but you look outside and it’s NOT raining, nor does it flood the following day, find a different ‘news’ source. Fox NEWS, (distinct from Fox Commentary programming), is accurate and reliable. Fox and the BBC are my two primary go-to news sources, with a rotating and occasional sampling of half a dozen more, e.g. NPR; NewsNation; Reuters; Newsweek, etc. I would not trust CNN or MSNBC to reliably or accurately tell me the date and time. NYT has gradually slipped out of objectivity and has sadly tarnished it’s factuality as well.

Is there anything as satisfying as clicking on clickbait while using an adblocker?

It’s just as much what they chose to cover and chose to ignore as it is their lies.

Too true to be funny.

I never see AP or Reuters mentioned in these threads about the media. Try either. They’re the news feeds the other media use. About as neutral as there is.

And that Ladies and Gents is why there is no such thing as unbiased news anymore! We were much better off before the 24 hour news cycle!

They used to say “there’s no bad advertising” still gets the attention, now we are in the extreme of false news just to get readers/listeners/watchers.

Pig should be on the NEW YORK POST,who hasn’t had an accurate front page since John Lindsay was Mayor

All these sties and stations and outlets would not exist if people did not click, listen or view. So who is to blame?

Pfft, wait till der führer gets going from his jail cell penthouse suite.

I have a t-shirt that proclaims “0 Days Without An Online Political Argument.” I should always wear it when I stop by here.

Any News

If legitimate news sites want to regain believability, they need to refuse the clickbait ads that many now accept.