25-Year Editorial Cartoonist Critical Of Trump Fired From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

[TheBlackAdder]

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We have all enjoyed this guy's work!

Rob Rogers, a Pulitzer Prize finalist who had been with the Post-Gazette for 25 years, announced his own ouster on Twitter. Earlier this month, he’d revealed that he was working through “unresolved” issues with the paper’s leaders over certain cartoons that they’d declined to publish.

“I knew in March” ― when he said the paper first started rejecting his cartoon drafts and ideas without explanation ― “that we were headed for some kind of a compromise or a showdown,” Rogers told HuffPost. “I didn’t know what it was going to be, but it turns out it was a showdown.”

The Thursday meeting in which he was fired, Rogers said, was the last of several he’d had with the human resources department since the paper’s editorial director, Keith Burris, began cracking down on his cartoons.

Since March, the Post-Gazette had axed 19 of his cartoon drafts and proposals without explanation, Rogers said. Over the course of a typical year, he noted, only a couple of his submissions would be rejected.

Baby-snatching:


Roseanne:


Starbucks vs. NFL:



A whole lot more at the jump:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cartoonist-critical-of-trump-fired-pittsburgh-newspaper_us_5b22a63ae4b0a0a52779908d


Time are a changing at that paper. Perhaps it was purchased by a RWNJ owner.

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