News Detourist Gifts

'It's a new Rupert Murdoch production -- the 'Things You're Better Off Not Knowing' channel.'

'Confused about your future, depressed, lacking confidence, not sure who you can trust...I'd suggest you avoid any election news and watch modern family instead.'

'This one is for keeping 'On Message' in the spin wars.'

Newspaper suicide.

"I'm not spinning - I'm contextualizing."

"Perhaps you wouln't have declared so many places 'worth a detour' if you'd held the map right way up!"

"According to my phone, society is on the brink of collapse, but, according to our living room, things seem pretty O.K."

Fake News - Tabloid News - State-run News - Free Press

I'm in the den mom, reading the newspaper for social studies class.

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"I try to keep my classes relevant."

'Forget about 'who,what,when,where,why,how'...Instead 'Will it sell papers...attract advertisers?'

'Oh Great. We just missed the once a millennia bus out.'

"Drat!"

"You know our 'Never-Overwhelm-The-Reader' policy. Your story is irrelevant, trivial and stupid but not irrelevant, trivial and stupid enough."

Man reading on top of giant pencil being carried by others.

The Hypocritic Oath

Information, Clarification, and Correction.

'And this is Paul, who writes our 'Voice of Sanity' column.'

Road Construction.

'I think it means corporate control is now complete.'

'Don't tell me we've been following the wrong light!'

In Plain Sight

Ban news chair

Information might travel at the speed of light, but the news still travels at the speed of sound bites.

"Gosh, it really is impossible to tell the deepfakes from the shallow ones."

"Did you research and verify before posting this?"

'Your BBC. Where the truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.'

"Excuse me, is this the third turning on the left?"

"It's tough being a media exec. There's always a threat of good news breaking out."

We're fact checking your story.

'So how much bad news did you manage to bury?'

News of the Underworld

"The truth? With all the fake news and alternative facts now, we're all just guessing."

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