Medill Reports On Political Cartooning

The good news is that Medill Reports, a publication of one of the nation's better journalism schools, has published a piece on the state of political cartooning. The bad news is that it's an at-best perfunctory piece that takes its best analysis from Kent Worcester's summation of the problems hitting that profession in terms of a slow and perhaps accelerating decline in number of full-time practitioners. It almost gets into an interesting issue when it talks about a couple of cartoonists' insistence that they be allowed to more severely editorialize instead of simply illustrate. I've never seen anyone challenged on this point, attacking the question if supporting this kind of speech will do well for the paper that carries it, which I swear seems part of the implied argument. I'm kind of skeptical it would be. Anyhow, you can quote-hunt the article for some nice agitation-style rhetoric from Ted Rall if you want, or you can bookmark it as kind of a 101-level argument about the professional in trouble, but I can't say you'll be missing much if you decide to bypass it altogether.
 
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