For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for February 08, 2024

oh weed, shut your piehole right NOW

Don’t we have those kind of friends who pressure you so much for no apparent reason. What is it to Weed if Mike doesn’t want to? He has no stake in it.

Weed would talk out the other face if the story was about him, and he didn’t want it out there.

Really bad advice, Mike…

I hope Mike prints the story using a fake name for the guy.

Possible lawsuit Mike. Think about it!

And this, my children, is why the species of journalist is so often disliked. Which is not to say there aren’t many good, decent journalists out there.

Don’t blow your nose for news? Lousy advice, but pretty good joke.

What does Mike’s teacher have to say in all this? I hope she realizes that the school might be open to a lawsuit (and Mike liable to be expelled) if it’s printed “as is”.

And when it all blows up into something really ugly, Weed will be as far away as possible, and will deny any culpability…. He’s like TJ getting Brad into trouble over at “Luann”..

“What about the guy’s feelings?”“So?”That’s the point Michael should have stopped listening. Weed is acting like the worst sort of friend and the worst sort of journalist.

In panel 2 Mike may have a good nose, but his ability to grow a full mustache is lopsided. It looks like his mustache is only grown on the right side of his face.

Clean shaven on the left!

Remember the cardinal rules of journalism: Push your career and sell content, everything else is irrelevant.

Mike has no claim to legitimacy as a “reporter” yet. Perhaps upon graduation as a diplomate.

Go and learn the sad story of Oliver Wellington “Billy” Sipple 11/20/41 to 01/89.

“To protect the privacy of the people involved, names and some details have been changed.”

Been debating posting. Not a journalism prof but in a related field. If he told the subject the article was “for class,” it’s not for publication without permission.

I got a bad feeling about this…

Lynn Johnston is the ambulance chaser of cartoonists.

Weed is merely an avatar of Mike’s ego. Mike is learning how to balance it to his id. As we all should hope to do, eventually. But short-term gain is so seductive.

Mike, don’t do it!

Or don’t do it

So says the credit until he becomes the subject

Don’t do it Mike.

There were two authorized (i.e. government-approved) newspapers in the Soviet Union, Pravda, which meant “Truth” and Izvestia, which meant “News”.

A joke among the Russian people was “There is no news in the truth and there is no truth in the news.”

“You got a nose for news, don’t blow it.”

Ah yes Weed, the modern day Confucius. Harvey Confucius, he comes from Alert, Nunavut Territory Canada where he was considered the wit of Ellesmere Island.

I hope he abides by the man’s wishes and doesn’t print it!

Growing pains for his lifetime profession

Don’t do it Mike. You are better than that…

We’ll know the answer by Saturday.

“Names have been changed to protect the identities of characters in this biography” would work.

Can’t there be other news? For instance, think about Elly forcing her family to eat beans. Imagine if that keeps going on the headline that would make.

BIG BROWN MOUNTAIN DISCOVERED IN MILLBOROUGH; PATTERSON HOUSE GONE

Just ask the editor.

One has a nose for new – the other for Hanky Panky – will the boogeyman complain about being picked on?

I remember Weed having a better moral compass

Call your Grandpa Jim and get some good stories! use those instead.

If you got it on the record (which Mike did) and its news worthy you print it. That is Journalism 101. Weeds right in this case

Does anyone else find Weed rather creepy looking ?

Noooo! Blow your nose, Mike!

Gotta keep tha nose clean, Weed.