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Post by String on Apr 5, 2020 10:38:10 GMT -5
So, kinda bored and was reading some issues of Superman Family when it occurred to me, which editor do you like better, Perry White or J Jonah Jameson? Then I thought, oh why not, let's up the ante to the whole newspaper.
So, which newspaper do you like more? The Pulitzer-prize winning journalism of the Daily Planet or the hard-hitting crime investigation and urban coverage of the Daily Bugle? Do you like biopic pieces and scandalous gossip of Big-Man-in-Town Lex Luthor or tough editorial columns on the threats posed to the general public by web-heads and costumed freaks in general?
You decide! Which fake fictional news do you trust the most?!
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 5, 2020 10:51:10 GMT -5
The Dailey Bugle is fake news directed at Spider-man. The Dailey Planet is Superman's Press company.
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Post by earl on Apr 5, 2020 11:07:50 GMT -5
Daily Bugle did do those crime news exposes on the maggia.
Kind of surprising the media is not a bigger part of the Batman ethos, seems like something nice and simple someone could develop out a bit. Vickie Vail is consistent as being a reporter but exactly where is not usually played out that much. Jack Ryder (aka Creeper) is also said to be a Gotham tv reporter at points, but not really focused upon.
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Post by Confessor on Apr 5, 2020 12:14:58 GMT -5
I always buy the Daily Bugle. You can depend on J. Jonah Jameson to make sure that the news is reported totally accurately without any editorial slant. In particular, I love Ben Ulric's column. Some of their freelance photographers aren't quite as technically proficient as they could be though -- you know, pictures with odd angles, badly composed, and not following the rule of thirds.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2020 13:22:25 GMT -5
I always buy the Daily Bugle. You can depend on J. Jonah Jameson to make sure that the news is reported totally accurately without any editorial slant. In particular, I love Ben Ulric's column. Some of their freelance photographers aren't quite as technically proficient as they could be though -- you know, pictures with odd angles, badly composed, and not following the rule of thirds. I don't know, any guy who will hire the Scorpion and the Spider-Slayer to get Spidey headlines, reminds me too much of the earl 20th century American yellow journalists who on slow news days would hire thugs to go stir up crap to start riots or protests so they would have something to report on and sell copies on those days, which makes him a very untrustworthy newsman in my opinion. It just doesn't seem like his bias would be contained to editorial output even if he was hiring quality reporters like Urich at times. The Planet has its own problems for sure, but Perry White comes across as having less of an agenda and would go with a negative Superman story when appropriate and necessary and would grudgingly go with a positive Luthor story if that's what the news dictated. I can recall several times where even when facing the potential sale of the Planet and pressure to placate people to either fend off the sale or facilitate it, White refused and reported the stories the news dictated, not what put forward his preferences or agendas, so on balance, I would go with the Planet. -M
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 5, 2020 13:49:40 GMT -5
Daily Planet had better comic strips:
Flash Gordon of Two Earths Scribbly Gasoline Alley-Kat-Dabra Little Orphan Brucie Anthro-Oop Dingbats Ollie and his Pals The Viking Prince Valiant Hour-Boarding House-Man 344 Clinton Street, Apt. 3G Dennis O'Neil the Menace The Dark-Seid Batman and Hobbes Garfield Logan Wildkatzenjammer Kids Terry Sloan and the Pirates Hi and Lois Lane Blue Beetle Bailey The Weather Wizard of Id Deathstrokey Stover
The Daily Bugle just had Mallard Filmore and Gil Thorpe.
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Post by brutalis on Apr 6, 2020 7:53:21 GMT -5
In this day and time would anyone really be reading either as a newspaper? Daily Planet might possibly still be going as an internet newspaper, and Daily Bugle would either end up as Enquirer Superhero trash reading at the check out counter (My baby is the Spawn of Morbius the Living Vampire, I was taken and probed by the alien Skrulls, Galactus eats Pluto and gets intergalactic indigestion, Spider-Man caught as Peeping Tom on 20th floor of Apartment Building, I was the Salesman at Macy's for Fin Fang Foom's swim trunks, etc) or become a YouTube channel with J.J.J. as the spokesman/face of real trash talking. Imagine the hits ol' brillo mustache face would get!
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Post by dbutler69 on Apr 6, 2020 11:49:03 GMT -5
I have no idea why anyone would buy or read the Daily Bugle. JJJ has no journalistic integrity whatsoever. He's compromised himself so many times it's not even funny...or maybe it is. Consequently, the Daily Bugle itself can't be trusted. Perry White, on the other hand, seems like a good editor and a good man from what I can tell.
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Post by tartanphantom on Apr 7, 2020 0:55:54 GMT -5
Any real comic fan knows that both the Bugle and the Planet were the equivalent of the lying mainstream media of their time. Perry White treated Lois and Jimmy as if they were total hacks and obviously paid them slave wages (Jimmy only owns ONE suit and bow tie? Really?). Meanwhile, over at the Daily Bugle, JJJ would sell his own mother for a hatchet job Spidey story and a case of Hostess Cupcakes. The only REAL news periodical was GRIT— because a fellow (and girls too!) could make 7 cents profit per copy sold, and have a chance at earning “swell prizes” too! With entrepreneurial ad copy incentives like that, who really cares about the stories inside? A close 2nd place would be The Menomonee Falls Gazette... because, hey, it was ALL comics from start to finish. carry on...
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Post by berkley on Apr 7, 2020 2:28:36 GMT -5
Were there other newspapers mentioned in Marvel or DC comics back in the day? None come to mind but you'd think there must have been - for example, in series set in places other than NYC or Superman's Metropolis. Did Batman's Gotham have a fictional paper, or MoKF (mostly set in the UK), or Howard the Duck (Cleveland), or Man-Thing (Florida)? I must keep an eye out for this next time I re-read any of those series.
What about today's superhero comics - do they have fictional news-blogs or equivalents to the Huffington Post or whatever?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2020 3:14:44 GMT -5
Were there other newspapers mentioned in Marvel or DC comics back in the day? None come to mind but you'd think there must have been - for example, in series set in places other than NYC or Superman's Metropolis. Did Batman's Gotham have a fictional paper, or MoKF (mostly set in the UK), or Howard the Duck (Cleveland), or Man-Thing (Florida)? I must keep an eye out for this next time I re-read any of those series. What about today's superhero comics - do they have fictional news-blogs or equivalents to the Huffington Post or whatever? The Gotham Gazette was the major daily in the Batman books. -M
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