Gary Varvel in the Public Square Gary Varvel is the guest on this weekend’s Story in the Public Square. Editorial cartoonists use illustration to offer a different perspective on the news and in doing so they challenge us to think in new ways. Gary Varvel brings a conservative perspective to his cartoons for the IndyStar. […]
The Kansas City Star is reporting on the power of good copy editors in today’s (August 5th) edition. From the story: A word in a 10-paragraph statement of the full-page ad supporting Samons was supposed to say “assets,” the newspaper’s publisher wrote in a public Facebook post Saturday morning. Instead, Samons’ ad contained this sentence: “I believe […]
Bado has coverage on his blog of an interesting auction, in which the only known copy, outside the Library of Congress, of the newspaper in which Ben Franklin’s original “Join, or Die” cartoon appeared was auctioned off for the minimum bid of $40,000, which went to $50,000 with the buyer’s premium. “Interesting,” in part because he […]