TRUTH IN COMICS
Jan. 13th, 2015 12:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogYou know you’ve reached a certain milestone in journalism when comic strips qualify for fact-checking.
Okay, Doonesbury is an exception, since it’s more of a political cartoon satirizing current events. Still, I find it interesting that people find it necessary to check the validity of a claim in a comic strip.
But then some of us already insist on applying objective journalism standards to comedians and novels. So why not comics?
The PolitiFact article doesn’t show the full strip, but you can read it here.
As for the CIA spending $81 million on torture lessons … well, that’s the country the majority of Americans have decided they want to live in, so I don't have anything to add that I haven’t already said.
Verified for accuracy,
This is dF
Okay, Doonesbury is an exception, since it’s more of a political cartoon satirizing current events. Still, I find it interesting that people find it necessary to check the validity of a claim in a comic strip.
But then some of us already insist on applying objective journalism standards to comedians and novels. So why not comics?
The PolitiFact article doesn’t show the full strip, but you can read it here.
As for the CIA spending $81 million on torture lessons … well, that’s the country the majority of Americans have decided they want to live in, so I don't have anything to add that I haven’t already said.
Verified for accuracy,
This is dF
