Fire the cartoonist
Freedom of the press? Don’t be silly.
A cartoonist says he has been dropped from a series of newspapers after his image depicting Donald Trump ignoring dead migrants to play golf went viral.
Michael de Adder, a freelance political cartoonist in Canada, says he was let go by all major newspapers in the southeastern Canadian province of New Brunswick after his cartoon was shared by thousands on Twitter and Facebook.
This is the cartoon in question. I think it’s brilliant. Harsh, obviously, but that’s the point, and isn’t harsh called for?
Cartoon for June 26, 2019 on #trump #BorderCrisis #BORDER #TrumpCamps #TrumpConcentrationCamps pic.twitter.com/Gui8DHsebl
— Michael de Adder (@deAdder) June 26, 2019
On Friday, Mr de Adder said on Twitter he had been let go from various employers.
“The highs and lows of cartooning. Today I was just let go from all newspapers in New Brunswick,” he tweeted.
He said major newspapers in New Brunswick, including the Telegraph Journal, The Daily Gleaner and The Times & Transcript all said they would no longer accept his work, but gave no reason for his dismissal.
Some criticised the Irving family, which owns the newspapers and is also involved in the forestry, shipbuilding and oil industries.
“It’s simple really,” Wes Tyrell, the president of the Association of Canadian Cartoonists, said in a statement.
“Trade has been an issue since Trump took office, trade that affects the Irvings directly, not to mention a host of other issues. And the president himself is an unknown quantity who punishes those who appear to oppose him.”
More like a known quantity, surely. He’s reliably monstrous.
Trump would simply play through without asking.
#1; and he’s never said ‘Do you mind if I..” in his life.
I wouldn’t call it “harsh” at all.
It’s suggesting Trump is indifferent to suffering when we know perfectly well that he glories in (other people’s) suffering. His first action in this situation would be to fire – in the most sadistic way he could engineer – whoever spoiled his game by allowing immigrants (dead or alive) to enter his golf course (unless they were working for him at lower than minimum wage). His second act would be to bill the family for posthumous golf club membership fees.
It is a brilliant cartoon.
David Low was pressured to censor his anti-Nazi cartoons. Chamberlain conveyed Goebell’s displeasure. Supposedly Low complied until the Anschluss.