Name: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Age: 232
Occupation: newspaper
Last Seen: Pittsburgh
Bee-otched For: firing their beloved cartoonist over telling the truth
Age: 232
Occupation: newspaper
Last Seen: Pittsburgh
Bee-otched For: firing their beloved cartoonist over telling the truth
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Right now, thousands of children are being separated from their parents all because they want a better life in America. The camps the children are being thrown in are now being compared to the Japanese deterrment camps during World War II. So far, it's definitely one of the worst policies created by Drumpf since taking the Oval Office.
It's too bad that a man who put some light on the situation has been fired.
Rob Rogers was the editorial cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette since 1993. He was fired from the paper last week, claiming that their editorial staff pressured him to produce comics that were pro-Drumpf. He refused; as a matter of fact, the final nail of the coffin was his last strip, seen above.
In an editorial piece for the New York Times, Rogers, a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1999 claimed that the traditionally-leftist paper had shifted more towards the right in recent years. They claimed that he was too obsessed with Drumpf and that his work had gotten more "angrier". In his op-ed piece for the Times, Rogers said that he'll be at his drawing table every day of his presidency.
Rob Rogers has gotten plenty of support from fellow cartoonists and even Pittsburgh's mayor. It's tragic that a paper that was a lefty stronghold for decades has now fallen to being a shitrag that caters to virtually nobody. Pittsburgh is a town that overwhelmingly hates Drumpf and for the PG to kiss his ass shows that it's about them and not the reader anymore.
Part of the problem is that the PG's editor, Keith Burris is a huge Drumpf supporter. It's not helping that they're doing more shared business with their sister publication, The Toledo Blade. Both papers are owned by the Block family, who also own Toledo's main cable system, Buckeye. They also own several TV stations including Fox affiliate WDRB in Louisville, NBC WAND in Decatur, IL and all the TV stations in Lima, OH.
Sadly, we live in a time where there's no real liberal media anymore, except for maybe the internet. AM talk radio is loaded with Rush and his clones, TV cable news is biased and corporate and even indie papers are either disappearing, or even worse, becoming more middle of the road like my childhood paper, Traverse City's Northern Express. When Luke Haase bought the paper a few years ago, they started publishing more conservative viewpoints and even racist cartoons from now-former editorial cartoonist Glenn McCoy. Recently, the paper pulled its last cartoon, Jen Sorensen's weekly comic.
I know, everything's online nowadays and there, people can provide their own views and opinions. Editorial cartoons are an artform and when its creator is told to provide a different viewpoint that's not his or her's, then it's not really art. It's forced. It's like forcing a black man to join the KKK.
If I'm not mistaken, Rogers' comics are still syndicated through Andrews McNeel, so he still has a job there. But sadly, this is a sign that cartoonists are being forced into the cookie cutter world of once-great journalism. When somebody is forced to present a viewpoint that's not theirs and make it their own, it's cookie cutter journalism at its worst.
I hope that because of this, the PG's circulation drops and the same goes with other publications that no longer present a viewpoint that people actually want. Growing up, I was into bands like KoRn, Rage Against the Machine, Slipknot and so on. Radio stations downstate played them, but not up in northern Michigan. Why? Because Traverse City's only rock station, WKLT was owned by a company from North Dakota that was all in it for the money instead of the quality. Of course, there's now Rock 105 and 95-5, but sadly, I've had a love-hate relationship with that station and its predecessor, The Zone. I look at the radio ratings now and the people are revolting from old standbys like 106 KHQ, WCCW and so on. Why? It's because there's other and better radio options out there like Pandora, SiriusXM and Spotify. In the case of the PG, people can flip over to the Tribune-Review or stop reading newspapers altogether. I haven't bought a newspaper in years and I feel fine, thank you very much.
Instead of ink, the Blocks have blood on their hands.
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Right now, thousands of children are being separated from their parents all because they want a better life in America. The camps the children are being thrown in are now being compared to the Japanese deterrment camps during World War II. So far, it's definitely one of the worst policies created by Drumpf since taking the Oval Office.
It's too bad that a man who put some light on the situation has been fired.
Rob Rogers was the editorial cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette since 1993. He was fired from the paper last week, claiming that their editorial staff pressured him to produce comics that were pro-Drumpf. He refused; as a matter of fact, the final nail of the coffin was his last strip, seen above.
In an editorial piece for the New York Times, Rogers, a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1999 claimed that the traditionally-leftist paper had shifted more towards the right in recent years. They claimed that he was too obsessed with Drumpf and that his work had gotten more "angrier". In his op-ed piece for the Times, Rogers said that he'll be at his drawing table every day of his presidency.
Rob Rogers has gotten plenty of support from fellow cartoonists and even Pittsburgh's mayor. It's tragic that a paper that was a lefty stronghold for decades has now fallen to being a shitrag that caters to virtually nobody. Pittsburgh is a town that overwhelmingly hates Drumpf and for the PG to kiss his ass shows that it's about them and not the reader anymore.
Part of the problem is that the PG's editor, Keith Burris is a huge Drumpf supporter. It's not helping that they're doing more shared business with their sister publication, The Toledo Blade. Both papers are owned by the Block family, who also own Toledo's main cable system, Buckeye. They also own several TV stations including Fox affiliate WDRB in Louisville, NBC WAND in Decatur, IL and all the TV stations in Lima, OH.
Sadly, we live in a time where there's no real liberal media anymore, except for maybe the internet. AM talk radio is loaded with Rush and his clones, TV cable news is biased and corporate and even indie papers are either disappearing, or even worse, becoming more middle of the road like my childhood paper, Traverse City's Northern Express. When Luke Haase bought the paper a few years ago, they started publishing more conservative viewpoints and even racist cartoons from now-former editorial cartoonist Glenn McCoy. Recently, the paper pulled its last cartoon, Jen Sorensen's weekly comic.
I know, everything's online nowadays and there, people can provide their own views and opinions. Editorial cartoons are an artform and when its creator is told to provide a different viewpoint that's not his or her's, then it's not really art. It's forced. It's like forcing a black man to join the KKK.
If I'm not mistaken, Rogers' comics are still syndicated through Andrews McNeel, so he still has a job there. But sadly, this is a sign that cartoonists are being forced into the cookie cutter world of once-great journalism. When somebody is forced to present a viewpoint that's not theirs and make it their own, it's cookie cutter journalism at its worst.
I hope that because of this, the PG's circulation drops and the same goes with other publications that no longer present a viewpoint that people actually want. Growing up, I was into bands like KoRn, Rage Against the Machine, Slipknot and so on. Radio stations downstate played them, but not up in northern Michigan. Why? Because Traverse City's only rock station, WKLT was owned by a company from North Dakota that was all in it for the money instead of the quality. Of course, there's now Rock 105 and 95-5, but sadly, I've had a love-hate relationship with that station and its predecessor, The Zone. I look at the radio ratings now and the people are revolting from old standbys like 106 KHQ, WCCW and so on. Why? It's because there's other and better radio options out there like Pandora, SiriusXM and Spotify. In the case of the PG, people can flip over to the Tribune-Review or stop reading newspapers altogether. I haven't bought a newspaper in years and I feel fine, thank you very much.
Instead of ink, the Blocks have blood on their hands.
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