Clay Jones for July 15, 2023

Clay, you editorial cartoonists are a touchy lot.

Is this another backstabbing initiated by republican backers trying to censor the ridicule heaped on them?

That stinks.

Is that a gremlin on the wing?

Reminds me of when Rob Rogers got fired for not wanting to goosestep for his employer.

Kevin Siers firing makes me want to cancel my subscription to the Charlotte Observer. This is ridiculous!!!

Actual journalists and their newspaper’s management were once proud to be called MUCK-RAKERS.

Now they’re MUCK-MAKERS.

And we’re the worse for it.

The pizza rat is there eating fruit. Where is the pizza? Here are some tips for making sure pizza rat have the diet he/she/it need to stay happy and healthy. https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/pets/rodents/rats/diet

Ohman, Pett, and Siers. It’s getting harder and harder to earn a living as a cartoonist.

One more crack in the Fourth Estate.

Who cares. People get fired every day, especially in a downsizing operation. Were the 3 somehow off limits? As for the Pulitzer Prize, that’s become a meaningless joke of an award.

It used to mean something. But handing them out for simply reporting hoaxes as real news turned them into the joke they remain today. There have been instances in the past where awards have been pulled back when it was revealed the author fabricated a story. But now as long as you publish the political message of the overlords, you get to keep the Pulitzer for promoting a hoax on the American people.

Put it on your resume.

Sad story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/07/12/mcclatchy-cartoonists-layoffs/

A microcosm of society at large, few are immune.

It appears McClatchy has chosen to no longer to publish editorial cartoons, therefore it would make sense to no longer employ editorial cartoonists.

…one is here on GC. ..☺️.

…and it makes you wonder, when the other shoe will drop..☹️☹️☹️

Big business is greedier than ever…

All of us can agree that online comics are far superior to those ‘offered’ by newspapers, hands down.

So does this mean that in a few years will be imprisoning political opponents in concentration camps similar to what Hitler did in the 1930’s when the Nazi’s took over Germany? That seems to be Trump and DeSantis’ solution to the problems in this country, imprison and kill your political opponents and other undesirables you see living in this country. They will not kill all however, they want to keep some of the more Trump guzzling useful idiots around as they seem to have fully bought into the theories of George Alsop, James Henry Hammond, George Fitzhugh, much of England’s aristocracy in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, as well as the segregationists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: a healthy society requires two things, a landed (and therefore independent) aristocracy, and a poor, largely enslaved in all but name, class to perform all of the necessary work and daily drudgery required, while the aristocracy pursues more lofty and intellectual endeavors.

I enjoy the opinions and observations offered by the political cartoonists and will try to follow those fired, wherever they land. Read the reasons for the firings – pathetic word salad. A political cartoonist would have shown the reasons so much better than the rep for McClatchy.

Well this sure fires up the free speech debate. Still think that it needs to be monitored and managed or not? BTW, media people get fired all the time for one reason or another, cartoonists are no better.

We are enjoying a dying breed.

Preserving the old ways from being abused

Protecting the new ways for me and for you

What more can we do

If only it were Thomas Nast

Unlike Rob Rogers who was fired because he was good at his job and the politics of the new owners disagreed with his view.

Not to worry as AI programs will soon be doing all the writing. /s

I’m amused by the first dollar having been ripped off. And the π rat hiding in the fruit basket.