Today, Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins) gives prime-time coverage to Biff & Wanda, the blow-dried anchorpeople of "Action McNews" — Tom Tomorrow's sneering tribute to lamestream media news shows. In a way it is fitting because the circus AKA the 2016 campaign has swelled the lamestream media into a role of participant, rather than observer/analyst. Biff & Wanda and their writers have given up and have sunk to an objective test instead of reporting the news. Perhaps this is a blueprint for a new Faux News format. If this is (fair & balanced) bull$hit, so be it.
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By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)
[Dan Perkins is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow". His weekly comic strip, "This Modern World," which comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Daily Kos. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly. Perkins, a long time resident of Brooklyn, New York, currently lives in Connecticut. He received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 1998 and 2002. When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, Perkins writes a daily political blog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001. More recently, Dan Perkins, pen name Tom Tomorrow, was named the winner of the 2013 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. Even more recently, Dan Perkins was a runner-up for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.]
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