Editing Milo Bloom (section)

==In ''Bloom County''==

Milo is the most worldly and cynical of all the characters; he is seemingly the only county resident who cares about politics and goings-on in the world outside his small town. He lives in the Bloom County Boarding House with his grandparents, [[Minor characters in Bloom County#Major Bloom|Major Bloom]] and Bess Bloom. Said grandparents run the boarding house where most of the characters live. To amuse himself when alone, Milo likes to do things like going spear fishing at a small creek with a whale harpoon.

Milo is also a reporter for the ''Bloom Beacon'' and later the ''Bloom Picayune'', where he engages in controversial reporting (he says he graduated from the "[[Rupert Murdoch]] School of Exuberant Journalism"). In early strips, he regularly bothers [[Senator Bedfellow]] with ridiculous questions, asking for confirming accusations (usually about the disappearance of [[Jimmy Hoffa]]), and attempting to convict him for virtually anything, although Bedfellow is not his only target. A noteworthy scandal he creates (with some help from [[Oliver Wendell Jones]]) involved changing the front page article of the ''[[New York Times]]'', from "[[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] Calls Women 'America's Most Valuable Resource'" to "Reagan Calls Women 'America's Little Dumplins'", resulting in an attack on the [[White House]] by angry [[feminist]]s but earning praise from [[Phyllis Schlafly]]. He has also changed the headline of the [[Russia]]n newspaper ''[[Pravda]]'', intending for it to say "[[Mikhail Gorbachev|Gorbachev]] urges [[nuclear disarmament|disarmament]]: Total! Unilateral!". Unfortunately, Oliver gets the translation wrong, resulting in the headline being "Gorbachev sings tractors: Turnip! Buttocks!"

Milo appears to be the only staff reporter on the ''Bloom Beacon''. The only other employees seen are the editor-in-chief and Opus, who serves, at various times, as personals editor, editorial writer, [[ombudsman]], and cartoonist (or, as he styles it, "stripper").

He also helps create and manage [[Bill the Cat]]'s band, Deathtöngue, and cofounds with Binkley a political party, The Meadow Party, with Bill and Opus on their presidential ticket.