So my cartoonist colleague
Ted Rall has been booted off the NYTimes online because they don't like his "tone." Oddly, one of the cartoons the online editor finds so offensive is
this one satirizing the commercialization and crass political appropriation of Ground Zero (neatly presaging the new Bush campaign commercials). So for making fun of such indignities, the cartoon gets labelled undignified? Frankly, the RNC's use of NYC as the site of their convention in early September is far more offensive.
This reminds me of another issue that's been on my mind, and that is a fear that alternative newspapers -- truly the media's last bastion of reason (along with some public radio and TV programming) -- are going to feel pressure from right-wing activists to mellow their "tone." To the industry's credit, I haven't seen any signs of this happening yet, though it may well be in some markets.
posted by Jen, 6:46 PM -
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