News Detourist Pillows

'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?'

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

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

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

The Hypocritic Oath

"Drat!"

Information, Clarification, and Correction.

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

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

Road Construction.

Ban news chair

"Did you research and verify before posting this?"

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

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

We're fact checking your story.

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

Reporter #3: can.

News of the Underworld

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

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

Fake news on social media