- Bad Reporter
Infobox Comic strip
title=Bad Reporter
caption= Lead panel of the "Bad Reporter" strip.
creator=Don Asmussen
status=Semi-weekly
syndicate=Universal Press Syndicate
comictype=print
genre=Topical humor, satire, current events
first=September 25 ,2003
last=
website= [http://www.amuniversal.com/ups/features/bad_reporter/index.htm UPS website]Bad Reporter is a semi-weekly
editorial cartoon incomic strip formatthat first appeared in the "San Francisco Chronicle " onSeptember 25 ,2003 [cite journal | author= Asmussen, Don | title= Bad Reporter | journal= San Francisco Chronicle | year= 2003 | date = September 25, 2003 | volume= | issue= | url= http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/09/25/MNASMUSSEN.DTL] .It typically contains four panels, the first a simple black panel with a
caricature of creatorDon Asmussen and the slogan "The lies behind the truth, and the truth behind those lies that are behind that truth". The remaining three are spoofs (parodies ) of newspaper articles containing a mock-up of a prominent newspaper masthead (such as the Chronicle or theNew York Times ), a headline, a simulated photograph, and a short text introduction or lead. Images are often obviously doctored file photographs or images from recent newspapers. Often there are humorous sidebars and other graphics.The strip grew out of an earlier effort for the paper entitled "The San Francisco Comic Strip." Its first topic was the recall of Governor
Gray Davis . It then moved on to cover the 2004 presidential election and events beyond.[
left|thumb|145px|Portion_of_[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/01/19/DDASMUSSENBR.DTL January 19, 2007 strip] .] The humor is generally topical and absurdist , describing one local or national current event in the terms and context of another. The strip often focuses on politicalscandal s inSan Francisco, California . For example, a panel from one2007 strip describes a notorious brawl between students at a local Catholic high school and a visitingYale University a cappella glee club in terms usually used with respect to theIraq War (the2003 United States military action inIraq ), with local celebrities the Brown Twins humorously portrayed as "warlord s" who want the college singer " occupiers" out "right now." [cite journal | author= Asmussen, Don | title= Bad Reporter | journal= San Francisco Chronicle | year= 2007| date = January 19, 2003 | volume= | issue= | url= http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/01/19/DDASMUSSENBR.DTL]The strip is syndicated by
Universal Press Syndicate .References
External links
* [http://www.amuniversal.com/ups/features/bad_reporter/index.htm Official United Press Syndicate website]
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