Go, Read: Ann Telnaes On Social Media And Editorial Cartooning

The Ann Telnaes has a new article up at Columbia Journalism Review on the impact that social media can have on editorial cartooning. She veers away from the subject of most analyses that focus on promotion and dissemination and goes right into pushback. This article I believe also serves as the Pulitzer Prize winner's longest commentary on her own social media blowback encounter: where she summoned the ire of the Ted Cruz campaign and its highly developed social media arm over a cartoon that attacked the candidate's use of children as campaign props.

Telnaes makes a couple of strong points about how the economic uncertainty of opinion-makers including cartoonists makes them extremely vulnerable to social media-driven campaigns. She also talks about coverage of such controversies being covered in partial terms dictated by those who use social media tools most effectively, which I agree is a dangerous routine concession media reporters make.
 
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