Media Analysis, Free Speech Round-Up

A variety of cartoonists are out there commenting in unique ways on media and issues of free speech that inform the way we deal with media expression.

* over at Wall Street Journal's on-line empire, Gene Yang got the call to create a response in comics form to Amy Chua's article "Chinese Mothers Are Better." It's unsurprisingly highly amusing with a streak of sweetness.

* the media analysis site Newsbuster.org notes that Darrin Bell of Candorville made a funny, appropriate summary statement regarding the cultural nadir reached that is a morning show anchor declaring that Lindsay Lohan had a better 2010 than any year enjoyed by Gandhi. Just reading about it makes me want to stay in bed for the entire year, too.

* the commenting crew over at Daily Cartoonist discusses the Heavy Ink/Tucson shooting thing, a short chat that features a potent Ted Rall/Scott Kurtz team-up. I never quite understood the hypocrite claim or why anyone would get upset about that, in this case applied to people that want to boycott the on-line retailer but don't as fully wish to boycott other bad corporate agents or the U.S. involvement in political actions that lead to death and torture. It's a bad standard, and it's hard for me to think of anyone who isn't a hypocrite in that way, except maybe guys that pick up guns and shoot people at grocery stores as the logical, end result of their belief systems.
 
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