Opinion | Michael de Adder: My editorial cartoon satirizing Trump and the border crisis went viral. Then I lost my job.
Greg Perry supplied Brunswick News Inc. with cartoons in case “de Adder decided he didn't want to work the two-week departure agreement.”But before the newspaper had a chance to tell me I was being let go and negotiate a smooth transition, I drew my infamous Donald Trump cartoon. And the next day, instead of getting a two-week departure agreement, I was terminated with no such agreement in place. It was like my previous 17 years at Brunswick News Inc. disappeared overnight.
Newspapers are cutting one of their best assets when they are at their most vulnerable. And in turn, democracy is losing one of its most treasured safeguards., 200 editorial cartoonists used to attend the association's annual convention. Today, it gets fewer than 50. The never-ending process of cutting costs at newspapers to try to make them profitable has hit the profession of editorial cartooning particularly hard.
. Óscar and Valeria drowned crossing the border. It's not funny in the least. It is an exaggerated depiction of what's really going on in the U.S. — when you cut through all the noise generated by talking heads and talking points.Herbert Block, who went by the name Herblock, was a master of doing just this. Herblock,was an editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post in an era when the editorial cartoonist was valued.
Newspapers aren't so excited to take on a president like Herblock took on President Richard Nixon. With dwindling revenues, they aren't so eager to rattle cages and seek the attention that a good cartoonist can bring. Without a cartoonist, they have full control over that space themselves by running syndicated work that they pay pennies for, and which supports the newspaper's position.
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