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Inside a cartoonist’s mind
The editorial cartoonist has been called the strongest single voice in a publication – if a publication has one. Sadly, and inexplicably, that voice is being snuffed out by short-sighted and...
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There aren’t enough women opinion writers — or at least not enough of them make it onto the pages of America’s newspapers. That’s the issue, not what Susan Estrich thinks about Michael Kinsley or how...
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The number of political cartoonists, by one estimate, has dwindled to about 85 fulltime people. Newspapers, as usual, seem bent on cutting costs rather than delivering quality, so the local cartoonist...
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Conflict of interest
One of the basic tenets of journalistic practice is that a journalist should be independent. That is, a journalist should not work for any person or organization except the news organization that he or...
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Yes, Virginia: the world’s most beloved editorial
Virginia O’Hanlon about 1895 Virginia O’Hanlon was eight years old and wanted to know the truth. Was there really a Santa Claus? So where did she turn? The New York Sun, because “Papa says, ‘If you see...
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