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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | This is the third comic in a row that deals with elections in the United States; the trio has been published in the week before the {{w|United States elections | + | {{incomplete|Please explain the "jiggling needle", not just presenting a reference. Title text is missing at all. Please only mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} |
+ | This comic compares media coverage on election results in 1896 and 2018. | ||
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+ | This is the third comic in a row that deals with elections in the United States; the trio has been published in the week before the {{w|United States elections, 2018}}. | ||
While elections and voting have been a public staple for generations, election coverage by the media can result in {{w|voter fatigue}}. While voter fatigue is considered a major criticism of things like {{w|First-past-the-post_voting|first past the post}} voting systems, media outlets will also contribute. | While elections and voting have been a public staple for generations, election coverage by the media can result in {{w|voter fatigue}}. While voter fatigue is considered a major criticism of things like {{w|First-past-the-post_voting|first past the post}} voting systems, media outlets will also contribute. | ||
− | + | Here, [[Randall]] is taking a unique opportunity to point out that unlike our recollection of history (which is usually modified by the {{w|misinformation effect}}, where we perceive the past as being easier and find a source to blame for the election night jitters) that in fact, in the past, a bombardment of fireworks every hour was used to convey the hour-by-hour play of the election night, a significantly more jarring effect that couldn't even be turned off. We have progressed, in some ways, to a more opt-in system, rather than the {{w|opt-out}} system of the past, where you had to leave Chicago to avoid the news. | |
− | + | The time traveler from 1896, wearing a {{w|top hat}} (the typical hat used at that time), presents [[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] a method how the latest news --over the night-- are published to the public. No broadcasting television or even radio existed then and most newspapers, reaching the readers on the next morning, were printed in the evening before the election results were certain. | |
− | The part about the "jiggling needle" | + | The part about the "jiggling needle" may be a reference to the [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/the-new-york-times-election-needle-is-back-with-a-few-new-safety-features New York Times' 2016 presidential election results] webpage, |
− | The title text explains that | + | The title text explains that even blind people are taken care of, as enormous megaphones are installed to convey the news equally unavoidably to others. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:Man in a top hat: From the ''Chicago Tribune'' | :Man in a top hat: From the ''Chicago Tribune'' | ||
− | :[Zoom in on | + | :[Zoom in on head of the man in a top hat] |
:Man in a top hat: "Once every hour from the roof of the Great Northern Hotel a series of bombs, which will ascend for several thousand feet, will be fired. Two colors will be used, blue and red." | :Man in a top hat: "Once every hour from the roof of the Great Northern Hotel a series of bombs, which will ascend for several thousand feet, will be fired. Two colors will be used, blue and red." | ||
:Man in a top hat: "Blue to indicate McKinley's election, red to indicate Bryan's election." | :Man in a top hat: "Blue to indicate McKinley's election, red to indicate Bryan's election." | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
− | + | The character with the large black hat is wearing a typical hat worn by wealthy men at the late 19th and early 20th century and should not be mixed up with [[Black Hat]]. | |
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | ||
− | [[Category:Characters with | + | [[Category:Characters with Hats]] |
[[Category:Elections]] | [[Category:Elections]] | ||
[[Category:Time travel]] | [[Category:Time travel]] |