Tom Tomorrow: NYT op-ed page bans political caricatures

[Newsjock]

http://thismodernworld.com/2599

... Finally got a response from the well-meaning art director, on January 5: he’d had a chance to meet with the editors, who liked the piece a lot, but there was just one small problem, the op-ed page has a new policy–

–(drumroll, please)–

No political caricatures.

Again, I kid you not. In case the sheer aching absurdity of this somehow eludes you, let me spell it out: the New York Times was soliciting work from a political cartoonist for the op-ed page without mentioning that political caricatures are no longer welcome on that page.

Even for the Times, this was a new level of lunacy. If the word “Kafkaesque” weren’t so overused, I’d be tempted to use it here. But of course, it is, and I won’t.

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[Loonman]

1. Yet another in the long list of reasosns

Why the NYT isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

[bunkerbuster1]

2. Another bit of light shed on the NYTimes' cluelessness--

"I once had to rewrite a cartoon for the Times because the editor did not understand the meaning of the punchline, 'do you want fries with that?'"

[MountainLaurel]

5. OMFG

:wow:

[tuvor]

3. Caricatures are now subversive art, huh?

I may just have to get back into it.

Hey, NYT, Courtney's got a message for you.

[tuvor]

4. How long before there's state-approved art in the USA?

This is canary in the coalmine stuff, IMO. Recommending.