Canadian media company Brunswick News Inc. ended its contract with freelance cartoonist Michael de Adder over the weekend after his drawing of President Donald Trump and the Salvadoran migrant family that drowned near the southern border went viral.
It is a sin to insult the Profit.
Let’s hope Mike Luckovich doesn’t lose his job next. You never know the way things are being handled in some corners of the press…tRump may call in for access to him and the agreement will be no access unless they do something about shutting down that cartoonist they keep publishing.
Suppression of reality really is a terrible thing.
The NYT foreign op-ed page had its editor end its cartoons entirely over a complaint with one cartoon, so in a real sense, it could happen here with enough political arm-twisting and untoward hostility concerning various syndicated artists. Yep, we’re on the road to fascism.
Cartoon is unrealistic. Trump would never be so polite as to ask for permission.
This
Getting too close to showing that the barbarian emperor has no clothes, and is steeped in abject callous cruelty.
So if Brunswick didn’t fire Michael de Adder because of the cartoon, what is the reason?
“It is entirely incorrect to suggest Brunswick News Inc. cancelled its freelance contract with cartoonist Michael de Adder due to a cartoon depicting Donald Trump currently circulating on social media,” the company said in a statement. “This is a false narrative which has emerged carelessly and recklessly on social media.”
Because it is entirely typical for businesses to end a contract over the weekend.
Anyone remember if this cartoonist was fired?
I checked, he wasn’t.
Instead the paper offered a non apology along the lines of racism wasn’t our intent and sorry if you took it that way and were offended. Besides the obvious racial implications, it also hinted at violence or assassination.
Tom Toles WaPo. He hates the occupant, never downplays it.
And of course Fat Nixon lied about it, then blamed the Democrats, making who the winner here? As he sees it he is, because he is blameless. But everything he had done in this episode, like so many others, was cruel. And that is the point, cruelty.
Back in the day Herb Block was just as pointed and relevant, no wonder why Nixon hated him. Thankfully the Washington Post and its syndicates never silenced him.
Forget it Jake, it’s the New York Post.
ya think he can get a job over at the New York … uh …
whatever that was … ? ? …
I remember Herb Block very well. Today’s equivalent of ongoing presidential caricature might be Garry Trudeau. A random sample.
We have a responsibility to mind Central America and all the Americas. Despite our affinity for the Europeans, we are not Europeans – we are Americans. And that means taking care of our own.
This discontinuing/firing cartoonists is VERY disturbing.
Block said the only cartoon he ever regretted was that of Nixon emerging from a sewer.
It was his version of Nixon’s nose I remember, something like a ski jump.
