Four days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Pulitzer
Prize--winning cartoonist Joel Pett of the "Lexington (Ky.)
Herald-Leader" chided President George W. Bush for having declared
that America would "punish any state that harbored or trained
terrorists." In one of his cartoons, Pett asked if this included
the state of Florida, where the terrorists had lived and taken
flying lessons. When Pett followed with other criticisms of Bush,
readers canceled subscriptions, demanded that Pett be fired, and
left profane messages on his voice mail. "One elderly woman spat
into the phone that I 'should have been in the World Trade Center,
'Pett said. "Such is the power of the cartoon when it is
unleashed."
Unrestricted by journalistic standards of objectivity, editorial
cartoonists wield ire and irony to reveal the naked truths about
presidents, business leaders, and other public figures. Indeed,
since the founding of the republic, cartoonists have both made an
important contribution to and offered a critical commentary on our
society.
This book demonstrates the limits of cartooning from the
courtroom to the newsroom. Chris Lamb examines the reasons for the
declining state of the art and the implications for all of us. Most
newspapers today publish relatively generic, gag-related,
syndicated cartoons. They are cheaper and generate fewer phone
calls than hard-hitting cartoons. Lamb charges that they are
symptomatic of the foundering newspaper industry and reflect a
weakness in the newspaper's traditional watchdog function. If a
newspaper wants to fulfill its function in society, maybe it should
find ways to make the phone ring more -- not less!
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