There could never be a mass shooting of staff political cartoonists in the United States, because American newspapers and magazines have fired almost all of them.
It Could Never Happen Here
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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The US media need never worry about prosecution for political statements questioning the government.
It just avoids challenging the government without appealing to one of the two parties it allows to exist.
Indeed, the US media has quietly pre-empted the wildest dreams of radical religious terrorists.
http://investmentwatchblog.com/paris-shooting-official-story-keeps-changing-by-the-second/
How easy is it to frame an entire culture because it has some batshit crazy members among it?
http://investmentwatchblog.com/wow-witness-says-paris-shooters-acting-like-police-security-forces-false-flag/
Bonus hyperlink … Amerikkka’s pigforce arrests 14yo girl for trying to comfort her dying brother.
DanD
Up above, last comment ~
http://rt.com/usa/220911-tamir-rice-sister-video/
D
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/01/first-question-ask-terror-attack-false-flag.html
A definition of FALSE-FLAG, and why it is a standard diplomatic tool of the world’s “Empire-Class” of national governments.
DanD
Ted – Are you playing us? I think that most of the people here agree with you that employment opportunities for political and editorial cartoonists in the US have pretty much dried up over the last decade. I don’t see anyone disagreeing with you – so why keep ranting and raving about it – as if it was an issue? I watched my job and expertise being outsourced many years back, and I did the best I could to turn to another area I could and keep on earning a living. The simple fact is that there are way too many “bullshit detectors” and “pundits” available for free on the Internet. If you shut down your site, then you might not even be missed. Stop and consider this for a moment. Is it possible that you, like many Republicans, would like to go backwards to where you were more successful? Are you feeling the pressure of change? Do you have any other skills?
Consider this. Not all change is progress. Not everything in the past is bad. Nostalgia is not just for Republicans. And just because a change is long past does not make it ‘not an issue.’
The media barons cannot possibly feel the killing of cartoonists is that impactful if they don’t even consider hiring them. They’re disingenuous. The decline of cartooning is an issue and a relevant one.
«[R]anting and raving», «rikster» ? What in the above cartoon qualifies as a «rant» or a «rave» ? What Ted here adumbrates – in what to my mind are quite calm terms – is the fact that the twelve people assassinated at Charlie Hebdo‘s editorial meeting would have constituted more than half of the number of full-time staff cartoonists presently active in the United States (http://www.clowncrack.com/2015/01/07/caricature-assassination/). To my mind, this is a topic well-worth discussing (and drawing a cartoon about), and if people like Ted and Dwayne Booth, who just happen to possess a great deal of knowledge regarding the matter, are to be accused of «ranting and raving» when they do so, who then can we ask to pick up the pen/drawing pencil ? Or do you believe this to be a matter of so little consequence that it need not be discussed ?…
Henri