Split-screen Skeptic Pillows

Missing the score on a split-screen TV

"Why don't we switch off the news and give Brexit up for Lent?"

Studies show foods work miracles!

CIA report

"Actually, yes, honey — I do believe 'Fox News' is an oxymoron."

Why do you hate the media?

"Can't we have 'PRESS BUTTON' to shut up the commentator's gobbledegook."

'I don't like reading on screen, so I'm printing the internet to look at it later.'

"People of Earth – can everyone see my screen?"

Classic News.

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

"Climate change is not real. It's fake climate!"

"This just in: you thought joy was within reach, but you were wrong."

Look! This says that space aliens have landed and have taken over control of the earth. Boy that's a load off my mind!

The following story is based on actual events.

Time for today's dose of emotional manipulation...

No Unknown Unknowns

"Now remember...no lies about the government...only lies from the government."

Newspaper headlines - Butters kills, Margarine kills.

Book computer

"You wanted to miss the Matisse show."

These networks are definitely treating news as entertainment, but I'm not sure if they're going for drama or comedy.

Bad Influence of TV

"Paparazzi!"

'...No, he can't really fly...no, the bad guys don't really have a gun...no this cereal really isn't the best food in the whole world...no, it won't make you as strong as a giant...'

'The story you are about to see is as true as most of the stuff you get on televison these days....'

"Please, no more movies about feelings."

"None of this news seems 'fit to print' to me!"

'A new poll reveals that 75 percent of fox news viewers believe there are death panels in the health care bill and 75 percent of Disney channel viewers believe elephants can fly.'

"The news you are about to see is fictitious and is shown merely for its sensational content."

Summertime Blues

"Smartphone sales" "Degradation of society"

You've got to stop getting all your history from Youtube and Netflix. Why? Because those are videos. People who make videos are making entertainment. It it's entertaining that means someone's constructed story. If it's a story, that means they left out or twisted whatever doesn't logically fit their narrative as told from one point of view. Accurate history would be completely illogical. Oliver Stone would disagree.

Couple watches the news, seeing 'News, Fake News, Weather, and Sports'.

'Today the nation's highly reliable sources were replaced by 'sometimes reliable sources'.'