Mike Luckovich and Trump 2.0
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Mike Luckovich hasn’t felt the need to pull any punches during his three decades of drawing political cartoons for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. But the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist admits even he’s a bit apprehensive as Donald Trump reoccupies the White House…
Trump’s reelection comes at a nervous time for the news industry, which is facing several challenges simultaneously … On top of that, there is a dwindling trust in institutions like news organizations — a shift Trump has exploited by railing against reporters and threatening to use the power of his incoming administration to stifle free speech…
The impact has been felt especially hard by the nation’s editorial cartoonists, who continue to dwindle in number as news organizations — especially corporate-owned chains — pare back due to dwindling digital revenue.
Those cartoonists remaining on staff at news organizations — by my count, less than 30 nationwide — face two colliding forces…
Under adverse conditions Editor& Publisher’s newspaper-centric cartoonist Rob Tornoe interviews Atlanta Journal-Constitution staff editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich about the pressures the profession faces.
E&P: Has the response to your cartoons gotten more nasty since Trump has ascended to power?
Luckovich: It’s weird because things were pretty quiet during the election. I didn’t get a whole lot of emails from Trump supporters. But now that Trump has won, I’m getting a lot more from people telling me my woke agenda has failed, “Trump is in, so shut up.” I got one note today from someone who called me a “dumb liberal s*&#.”
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