The pizza rat is there eating fruit. Where is the pizza? Here are some tips for making sure pizza rat have the diet he/she/it need to stay happy and healthy. https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/pets/rodents/rats/diet
Who cares. People get fired every day, especially in a downsizing operation. Were the 3 somehow off limits? As for the Pulitzer Prize, that’s become a meaningless joke of an award.
It used to mean something. But handing them out for simply reporting hoaxes as real news turned them into the joke they remain today. There have been instances in the past where awards have been pulled back when it was revealed the author fabricated a story. But now as long as you publish the political message of the overlords, you get to keep the Pulitzer for promoting a hoax on the American people.
So does this mean that in a few years will be imprisoning political opponents in concentration camps similar to what Hitler did in the 1930’s when the Nazi’s took over Germany? That seems to be Trump and DeSantis’ solution to the problems in this country, imprison and kill your political opponents and other undesirables you see living in this country. They will not kill all however, they want to keep some of the more Trump guzzling useful idiots around as they seem to have fully bought into the theories of George Alsop, James Henry Hammond, George Fitzhugh, much of England’s aristocracy in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, as well as the segregationists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: a healthy society requires two things, a landed (and therefore independent) aristocracy, and a poor, largely enslaved in all but name, class to perform all of the necessary work and daily drudgery required, while the aristocracy pursues more lofty and intellectual endeavors.
I enjoy the opinions and observations offered by the political cartoonists and will try to follow those fired, wherever they land. Read the reasons for the firings – pathetic word salad. A political cartoonist would have shown the reasons so much better than the rep for McClatchy.
Well this sure fires up the free speech debate. Still think that it needs to be monitored and managed or not? BTW, media people get fired all the time for one reason or another, cartoonists are no better.
brwydave Premium Member 12 months ago
Clay, you editorial cartoonists are a touchy lot.
Flashaaway 12 months ago
Is this another backstabbing initiated by republican backers trying to censor the ridicule heaped on them?
sipsienwa Premium Member 12 months ago
That stinks.
danketaz Premium Member 12 months ago
Is that a gremlin on the wing?
Will? 12 months ago
Reminds me of when Rob Rogers got fired for not wanting to goosestep for his employer.
Coopersdad 12 months ago
Kevin Siers firing makes me want to cancel my subscription to the Charlotte Observer. This is ridiculous!!!
Walter Kocker Premium Member 12 months ago
Actual journalists and their newspaper’s management were once proud to be called MUCK-RAKERS.
Now they’re MUCK-MAKERS.
And we’re the worse for it.
knutdl 12 months ago
The pizza rat is there eating fruit. Where is the pizza? Here are some tips for making sure pizza rat have the diet he/she/it need to stay happy and healthy. https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/pets/rodents/rats/diet
wildthing 12 months ago
Ohman, Pett, and Siers. It’s getting harder and harder to earn a living as a cartoonist.
Havel 12 months ago
One more crack in the Fourth Estate.
aristoclesplato9 12 months ago
Who cares. People get fired every day, especially in a downsizing operation. Were the 3 somehow off limits? As for the Pulitzer Prize, that’s become a meaningless joke of an award.
It used to mean something. But handing them out for simply reporting hoaxes as real news turned them into the joke they remain today. There have been instances in the past where awards have been pulled back when it was revealed the author fabricated a story. But now as long as you publish the political message of the overlords, you get to keep the Pulitzer for promoting a hoax on the American people.
Put it on your resume.
knutdl 12 months ago
Sad story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/07/12/mcclatchy-cartoonists-layoffs/
mourdac Premium Member 12 months ago
A microcosm of society at large, few are immune.
DC Swamp 12 months ago
It appears McClatchy has chosen to no longer to publish editorial cartoons, therefore it would make sense to no longer employ editorial cartoonists.
Zebrastripes 12 months ago
…one is here on GC. ..☺️.
…and it makes you wonder, when the other shoe will drop..☹️☹️☹️
Big business is greedier than ever…
WestNYC Premium Member 12 months ago
All of us can agree that online comics are far superior to those ‘offered’ by newspapers, hands down.
Civitas Libertas 12 months ago
So does this mean that in a few years will be imprisoning political opponents in concentration camps similar to what Hitler did in the 1930’s when the Nazi’s took over Germany? That seems to be Trump and DeSantis’ solution to the problems in this country, imprison and kill your political opponents and other undesirables you see living in this country. They will not kill all however, they want to keep some of the more Trump guzzling useful idiots around as they seem to have fully bought into the theories of George Alsop, James Henry Hammond, George Fitzhugh, much of England’s aristocracy in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, as well as the segregationists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: a healthy society requires two things, a landed (and therefore independent) aristocracy, and a poor, largely enslaved in all but name, class to perform all of the necessary work and daily drudgery required, while the aristocracy pursues more lofty and intellectual endeavors.
wuhts 12 months ago
I enjoy the opinions and observations offered by the political cartoonists and will try to follow those fired, wherever they land. Read the reasons for the firings – pathetic word salad. A political cartoonist would have shown the reasons so much better than the rep for McClatchy.
IndyW 12 months ago
Well this sure fires up the free speech debate. Still think that it needs to be monitored and managed or not? BTW, media people get fired all the time for one reason or another, cartoonists are no better.
rossevrymn 12 months ago
We are enjoying a dying breed.
Radish the wordsmith 12 months ago
Preserving the old ways from being abused
Protecting the new ways for me and for you
What more can we do
willie_mctell 12 months ago
If only it were Thomas Nast
longgun 12 months ago
Unlike Rob Rogers who was fired because he was good at his job and the politics of the new owners disagreed with his view.
tauyen 12 months ago
Not to worry as AI programs will soon be doing all the writing. /s
Erse IS better 12 months ago
I’m amused by the first dollar having been ripped off. And the π rat hiding in the fruit basket.