With today's 'toon, Tom/Dan wrote:
This cartoon [copyright 2017] has actually been sitting in my evergreen file for awhile. It was originally inspired by some amalgamation of David Brooks, about whom I have written a fair amount over the years, and by the infamous climate change denialism of his more recently-added colleague, Bret Stephens. But recent controversies, including running a piece by discredited gun-statistics manipulator John Lott, a pro-mercenary piece by Blackwater founder Erik Prince (publisher A.G. Sulzberger compared publishing that piece to publishing something by Bernie Sanders, because of course he did)... as well as the utter tone-deafness of staff editor Bari Weiss, who recently commented on Twitter, in reference to Olympic figure skater and American citizen Mirai Nagasu, “immigrants: they get the job done.” (She doubled down after being roundly criticized, claiming that she meant Nagasu’s *parents.*) And then there was the fiasco of Quinn Norton, who was hired and fired literally within hours after her tweets defending her friendship with literal Nazis were pointed out. Op-ed editor James Bennet is notoriously controversial in-house as well, as detailed here and here.
With all that going on, as well as a curtailed work week (due to some logistical complications arising from my new life in a liminal space), it seemed like a good week to run this one.
Until next week,
Dan
If this is a (fair & balanced) demonstration of the current corruption of "Facts" and "Factual," so be it.
[x TMW]
The Columnist
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)
[Dan Perkins is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow." His weekly comic strip, "This Modern World," which comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Daily Kos. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly. Perkins received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 1998 and 2002. When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, Perkins writes a daily political blog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001. More recently, Dan Perkins, pen name Tom Tomorrow, was named the winner of the 2013 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. Even more recently, Dan Perkins was a runner-up for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.]
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