UncleSam
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« on: June 18, 2018, 02:32:29 AM » |
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I mean if he’s bad at his job then that’s one thing. We only have one side of the story here - his. I’d rather not guess why he was fired but I think it’s a safe assumption that when he was told his cartoons were too angry and too Trump-focused, they were trying to tell him that he should ease off things a bit for the good of the paper.
There’s a line somewhere with everything. I tend to think that cartoonists should be the ones crossing it and testing its’ boundaries, but ultimately a cartoonist is there to enhance the experience of the readers. If the readers didn’t like the cartoons it is reasonable to get a new cartoonist. If the editor just likes Trump (which seems unlikely to me but who knows), then he should not have been fired and deserves to be able to sue.
I will say that it continually astonished me just how low those on the left go to make a joke about Trump. It’s way beyond anything anyone got away with saying about Obama.
I hope both sides of the story come out and we see the truth of this. Being fired for telling a joke your editor didn’t like is ridiculous, while being fired because the readers don’t want to read your cartoons anymore is not only understandable but deserved. Until we learn more I don’t think we can really say for sure what happened.
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