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Grrl Power #1316 - Gesnewsheit

🕑 Added 2024-12-26 11:00:10 +0000 UTC

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Kazzellin

... Is Suzie supposed to look tired in these shots of her? That's what the definition under her eyes looks like--puffiness, like she hadn't been sleeping, or just put on makeup to cover up her having been crying right before going on the air. Pretty sure that wasn't what you were going for. ^^;

Person

Is it just me, or does that pic of Sydney remind anyone else of a chihuahua? It's the bulging eye[s]. Does anyone else ever look at a dog, and think "man, that is one inbred wolf"? Especially with the small, yippy breeds? My family has three dogs, including a couple chihuahua mixes, and damn... I can't NOT think it most days. "I'm sorry my species turned you into a hideous mutant freak."

IvyReed

If you're looking for a narrative access point, it's probably just a prank. I mean who has the "all hot super heroes 24/7" news network anyway. that's clearly a pay-per-view situation. So. Who'd want to prank Sydney, particularly mock her for her mediocre appearance? That's a bit tougher to figure out.

Daniel Schinhofen

Shit I laughed so hard at that.

Czarzhan

It's this one https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-436-muppetosis/ And the one after. Another massive archive dive. I've been laughing a LOT today.

Mathew Aaberg

Yeah US "news" is not news. I swear if billionaires (and all their shills) vanished for a couple of years we could get so much done. Yanks seem to have developed this faulty perception that just because something is government owned it is incapable of operating in a free market. If your government can't run a company, they can't run a country. Don't trust your government to run a company in the public's interest.... speaks more to you as a people who put them in power now doesn't it.

Mark Magagna

I was going to put the link to the page where they prank Sydney with a muppet of Max, but I can't find it. Some sort of search facility would be nice.

JasonAW3

I suspect that Sydney may go full on supervision over that... I can just see it the next morning... Sydney, with a very peeved expression, standing in the smoking crater and ruins that was the broadcast studio of that transmission, with Max floating in the air to Sydney's right, (viewers left) asking, with arms crossed, eyebrow raised, and a slight frown, "Are you satisfied now?" Sydney thinks a moment... "Yes, as a matter of fact, I am!" The broadcast executives and a construction crew are applauding, and telling Sydney Thanks, as demolishing the old studio would have cost a fortune and taken months. With the prefab structure they ordered, they should be back online in a week!

SheepFace2000

The punchline here got me good

Eric Loken

@Thisguy - The CBC is also funded by the government, and I too wouldn't say they are completely free of bias - nothing involving human beings can be completely free of bias, or error - which is why I said they 'try to be non-partisan'. It is considered the 2nd most reliable news source for Canadians, beat out only by the Weather Network... The other two major Canadian networks do actually have good reputations as well. The distinctly biased news like Fox News and Rebel News (Canadian web based source of racism, sexism, and anti LGBTQ+ articles) are very much viewed as unreliable (amusingly, Rebel News is considered more reliable than Fox, and the Canadian news satire site the Beaverton is considered more reliable than either of them, although still not considered reliable overall). The government funding is where the Conservatives try to justify shutting down the CBC, saying the government shouldn't be funding the media. The spin of course is that it is 'government propaganda', which is rather amusing as the CBC is usually the first to report on the government - whether Liberal or Conservative - doing something they shouldn't. Some claim the CBC would be better if they had to compete in the 'free market' like the other networks, that this would make them 'more reliable'. Uh, no, it would make them distinctly less reliable.

Eric Loken

@Mathew - yes, you are correct, I was talking about the American news networks. The CBC in Canada tries to be non-partisan as well, and the Conservatives hate it and want it shut down. CTV and Global are owned by big media corps, and conservative ones at that, and tend to have a bit more of a corporate bias to them. And there is the saying, "reality has a known liberal bias". @Thisguy - yes, news should be a simple reporting of facts. Not 'truth' as that can be subjective, and certainly not opinion, but facts. Interpretation of those facts should be noted as opinion. Obvious conclusions can be stated - "In this video this person appears to be John Smith and appears to be strangling the victim to death. This does appear to be quite damning evidence of John Smith's guilt." (and even then there is the use of 'appears', as these days even video is suspect) - but spin should most definitely not be allowed. Sadly, as Fox News rather gleefully declared at least once, they are not obligated to report the truth, or even all the facts so that people can conclude the truth themselves. They are allowed to choose which facts to report and which to ignore, to spin what they do report all they want, although they are still limited by slander and libel (depending on printed or spoken word) as they found with their claims that Dominion rigged the 2020 election. Heck they can even get away with saying falsehoods about someone else as long as they publish a tiny little retraction later (and stop repeating it, which they failed to do in the Dominion case), never mind that few will see the retraction and the lie will stick in more people's minds because few even know about the retraction.

Thisguy

The ABC is also primarily funded by the government. I would not say they are completely without bias, but they are still one of the most fair and reliable sources of information in Australia.

Thisguy

What was the phase I heard once... "opinion-based news". Used to describe Sky News I believe. News is FACT, opinion is NOT.

Justaguy

I mean awhile back we had Obama on screen. But it could be Obama Jnr and it's 2052 I guess.

eddi_TBH

She would object to being referred to as 'Colonel Leander'.

eddi_TBH

The media is quick to pick up on who's the comic relief in this bunch.

Mathew Aaberg

Not all are corporate sell outs. The BBC and ABC (Australia) are legislated to be non-partisan. In fact, the ABC gets in trouble quite often for publishing something someone thinks is biased one way or another. (But it's usually not and it just doesn't fit their views)

Eric Loken

"Which as far as I'm concerned, if you do stuff like that, you're not news, you are a unit of entertainment programming." They are all owned by big companies now, news is all for profit, so reporting becomes automatically suspect. Some channels are worse than others, but they are all under editorial approval by Corporate Management (this has been rather blatant with the CEO shooter coverage). As for Sydney's photo, I'd long wondered about that. Newspapers - and their online versions now - often seem to pick some very weird photos of people, like they deliberately went for the shot when they were pronouncing a strange word, or had to sneeze or something. And that it was only for some people made it further suspect, normally I think it was deliberate to make the people the editor didn't like look bad.

Otoger

the old page looks like it just bleached a bit like an old picture, which makes no sense but hey

Thisguy

People don’t write letters/emails or make formal complaints much anymore. They just complain on social media.

Opus the Poet

Nope, just using her proper rank.

MaryAnne Glazar

When something offends me I just stop reading/watching/listening to it. Life's way too short to bother spewing one's opinions into the multiverse.

M. Lampi

Wow! I didn't remember Maxima being so "frankensteiny" back then. She's much better drawn these days.

Czarzhan

Great. I follow the link and lose a couple hours in an archive dive.

Dave Barrack

Apparently she does dresses for celebrities on the red carpet.

Christopher Upton

Damnit David! You made me do a spit-take!

Eric

Poor Sydney. And here I wanted to see her in some especially "flattering" outfits, too. *wink*

Beechwood Chip

Fun strip, but why does everyone keep referring to Maxima as "Lieutenant Colonel Leander"? Are they trying to emphasize that she's not a full colonel?

Richard Riley

*ahem* Exhibit A. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-70-punked/

Jonathan Hamilton

Lmao, I can totally see the PR lady doing that to get back at Sydney for being harder to manage than Max.

Gullindjemprins

Oh look, it’s my kids every time I try to take a nice photo for any reason.

Stephen Gilberg

Who's Saab?

Mark Magagna

I was under the impression that Harem had a little more sense. Giving Suzie that picture would make Arianna's job deliberately harder, and the team already makes it pretty hard unintentionally. If it's due to an action on the part of the team, I'm leaning towards "prank closed-circuit video", rather than one team member tearing down another in public. [edit]Yeah, that's a prank on Harem's part. "So let's get caught up on celebrity news!" You couldn't think of a more subtle lead-in, Harem? I guess it does give Sydney the chance to say "Wait a minute...".

Czarzhan

I like this one better. Much closer to Occam's Razor.

Playwars

My money is on Arianna for that stunt. She has...a lot to pay Sidney back for. To say the least. Also, this reminds me a lot of their PR move when they rebuilt the overpass they'd smashed, during the first super brawl and Archon's innaugural ass kicking delivery.

Sharien Radaik

how much fun was it to draw that pic of sydney? cause it genuinely made me laugh like a maniac XD

Jacob Bissey

I figured Harem gave Suzie the pic to troll Sydney

Jacob Bissey

I was kinda presuming this was a real broadcast but Harem had given Suzie the pic specifically to troll Sydney and suggested watching the news because she knew the gag would air right then. I mean, she does say that Suzie is her girl right before.

Aaron Mauthe

I think Ariana wanted some revenge

Czarzhan

What if it's not real but a prank video set up by Dabbler and Harem; Dabbler for the technical aspects getting the vid to play on an ARCHON base screen when Sydney is present and the hidden cameras to record her reaction, and Harem to get Suzie Wen to do the piece as a favor to the team (you know Suzie would do that in a heartbeat if asked).

Greg Morrow

I laughed out loud. Great strip.

Immortal_Knight

that's possible lol

Matthew Thompson

It’s Neil Degrasse’s revenge for the glowing sphincter.

BJ

The trio of them sitting around waiting was cute. Fun gag too.

Teksura

It's also possible that Sydney has been blowing off some important PR photoshoots Ariana has scheduled, and so the news just didn't have a picture provided, so they had to buy a bad one from a paparazzi. I could see Sydney complaining to Ariana about this and being basically told it was her own fault for skipping out on the photo shoots.

VC

Nah, I've been waiting for a chance of guest appearance if it fits the story.

Justaguy

Snarky with a chance of giving a shit in the afternoon. 😅

Matthew Dodgen

Wait isn't Ariana head of the PR department? Seems she wanted some revenge for Sydney's shenanigans a while back. 😈

Justaguy

Could be a re-release of a director's cut.

Marc Vun Kannon

I was just rereading the scene at the Bank Robbery and I loved the banners on the TV. Every time Sydney said anything there was a crawler commenting on it. The various 'news' stations on TV was some of your best humor. And Suzie fan-girling Max.