Good & Bad News: Newspaper Cartoons



The good news is that R.J. Matson has been hired as staff cartoonist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. It was unclear if the paper would hire a new staff person to that position due in part to publicity surrounding charges of political bias in the firing of John Sherffius. The bad news is that newspapers continue to be forced into a role of maximizing profits for stockholders, the wisdom of which is debated in the newspaper industry because some feel it can get in the way of a paper's public watchdog role. Cutting resources can also be dire news for editorial and strip comics, where the contribution to the bottom line is easier to see when written in red ink as opposed to black.
 
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