Along with today's 'toon, Tom/Dan wrote:
Greetings to new subscribers! We have a wave of newbies this week, thanks to a small subscription push I posted on Twitter this week. Your patronage is immensely appreciated. I am not kidding when I say that my client list has dropped precipitously over the past five years or so, and this little email list right here has basically compensated for the loss. So I thank you sincerely for helping me to keep this boat in the water -- and apologies in advance when I inevitably piss you off about something or another.
I KNOW THAT I'M LATE TO THE TOPIC, with this cartoon! It was scheduled to run last week, but was pre-empted by the release of the redacted Mueller report. This ginned up controversy feels like it happened a million years ago, since we're all living in dog years (or, as I have suggested previously, trapped in the event horizon of the black hole in the president's brain). But these attacks are by no means over — Karl Rove just published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal last week, decrying Omar's remarks and demanding an apology.
Also, I'm actually on a quick vacation this week — the first real trip I've taken since the old life fell apart that wasn't due to either my father or my son. (I had a fantastic vacation with my son last summer, just to be clear!) Anyway that means a quick note this week, and I just want to let the newbies know that I usually write a bit more than this.
Until next week...,
Dan/Tom
And there you have it. This 'toon about the media blather reminded this blogger why he has imposed a cone of silence over the cable news media: no MSNBC to Faux News, No time-filling blather to justify their advertising rates. So, today's 'toon was irrelevant to this blogger. If that is the (fair & balanced) reality of the third decade of the 21st century, so be it.
[x TMW]
The News Cycle: A Case Study
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 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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