An anonymous complaint about a Mark Knight editorial cartoon published May 21, 2024 in the Herald Sun has been deemed “offensive and prejudicial” by the Australian Press Council. The cartoon (below) was drawn in response to an increase of immigration into Australia. The complaint argued that the immigrants in the cartoon were depicted as “mostly Muslims […]
It doesn’t take much to make me laugh over a poke at Facebook, but the level of gallows humor in this Joy of Tech gibe makes it more thought-provoking than funny. Will future generations one day look back with the same sense of “What the hell were they thinking?” Of course, the Greeks and Romans […]
We start the day, and the week, with a Barney and Clyde (WPWG) in which Weingarten et cie use “beg the question” properly, which is probably too smart for the room, but they redeem themselves by referencing “passive-aggressive,” a phrase that has come to mean any response short of a punch in the face and […]
DD Degg covered the basics of the uproar over the Australian’s anti-Biden cartoon, though things haven’t settled down yet. The editor-in-chief has called upon on those who work at the paper to defend the piece on the basis of comradeship, because we’re all in this together and so forth, and News Corp Australia’s CEO then […]
Jeff Danziger captures the mood, or at least mine and presumably his. I’ve been working from home for the past decade, so I don’t know why this would be any different, but it is, mostly, I think, because “working from home” always included a lot of little errands that I’m thinking twice about now. Which […]