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Saturday, August 20, 2005

 

Bad Reporter

Always late to the party, I've only recently discovered Don Asmussen's editorial cartoons for the San Francisco Chronicle. They're something like Tom Tomorrow's:
In general, each Asmussen strip (called "Bad Reporter," hence the title of this post) begins with a panel depicting a guy who is presumably the bad reporter in general, labeled "The LIES behind the TRUTH, and the TRUTH behind those LIES that are behind the TRUTH." Following this panel are excerpts from a bogus newspaper article.

Here's a frame from a recent example (click on the image to see the complete cartoon):
Headline: BANKS NOW OFFERING ZERO-PERCENT INTEREST FOR FIRST-TIME GAS BUYERS - Young Couples to Live the American Dream of DRIVING TO STUFF. Text: Inspired by Bush's 'Ownership Society,' hopeful citizens aspired to someday own some gasoline.
You can see Asmussen's complete archives at the sfgate.com site.


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