Brandon Zachary, Comic Book Resources; Artist Fired For Trump Cartoons to Release Book Enemy of the People
[Kip Currier: With his singular artistic style and rapier insights, Rob Rogers is truly one of America's great political cartoonists and satirists.
Rogers was treated abysmally by the owners and management of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and was fired from the paper this year; see this Nov. 4 article in The Washington Post for more background.
It's good to see that his newest compilation Enemy of the People: A Cartoonists Journey will be available for purchase soon.]
"The Pulitzer Prize winner was a 25-year veteran of the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette before being unceremoniously fired earlier this year,
purportedly because his cartoons were regularly critical of President
Trump and his policies.
Titled Enemy of the People: A Cartoonists Journey, the 184-page collection will be released Dec. 11 through the publisher's IDW Limited imprint...
“Satire is the ultimate expression of free speech," Rogers said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.
"[It] reminds us that we live in a healthy democracy. But we are living
in a time like no other in our country’s history, a time when the media
is under attack, a time of extreme partisanship. We need satire and
editorial cartoons more now than ever.”"
Issues and developments related to ethics, information, and technologies, examined in the ethics and intellectual property graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in Summer 2025. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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Friday, November 9, 2018
Saturday, September 1, 2018
Letter to the Editor: "Get the Facts on Readers", Emailed to The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Kip Currier, September 1, 2018
[Kip
Currier: I'm copying below a Letter to the Editor--titled "Get the
Facts on Readers"--that I emailed today (September 1, 2018) to The
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. For additional background, see this story.]
Get the Facts on
Readers
Dear Editor,
The Post-Gazette is running a multi-platform ad campaign
that weaponizes variations of the line “I will never go digital” to make fun
of older readers, depicted as fuddy-duddy Luddites. In one particularly
offensive TV spot, a digitally-savvy granddaughter openly mocks her grandmother
who prefers print.
Research refutes the ageist “messages” in the P-G’s divisive
marketing campaign. Many adult U.S. readers—of all ages—are hybrid readers who want the choice of information in both print and digital formats.
As evidence, take a look at some of the key findings from a Jan.
3-10, 2018 national survey of 2,002 U.S. adults, reported by the
well-respected, non-partisan Pew Research Center:
Despite some growth in certain digital formats, it remains the case that relatively few Americans consume digital books (which include audiobooks and e-books) to the exclusion of print. Some 39% of Americans say they read only print books, while 29% read in these digital formats and also read print books.
And the coup de grace
to the P-G’s graceless stereotyping:
Some demographic groups are more likely than others to be digital-only book readers, but in general this behavior is relatively rare across a wide range of demographics. For example, 10% of 18- to 29-year-olds only read books in digital formats, compared with 5% of those ages 50-64 and 4% of those 65 and older.
The P-G’s preening effort to digitally divide users borders on farce, given that P-G
writers and staff repeatedly concede the deplorable state of the newspaper’s
digital search and archival features.
The P-G’s tagline is “One
of America’s Great Newspapers”. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons,
that tagline is not supported by facts. So, here’s a “message” for P-G
ownership:
Hire some of the Pittsburgh region’s highly educated information professionals to help the P-G become a bona fide leader in print and digital content, search, and delivery. Give the Pittsburgh region a truly great newspaper that inclusively serves and respects all of its readers and residents.
James “Kip”
Currier
Mt. Lebanon
Post-Gazette Is Going Digital, At Least On Some Days, With An Ad Campaign That Is Raising Eyebrows; KDKA 2 CBS Pittsburgh, August 22, 2018
Jon Delano, KDKA 2 CBS Pittsburgh; Post-Gazette Is Going Digital, At Least On Some Days, With An Ad Campaign That Is Raising Eyebrows
"The PG has billboards up around town and television ads on-air, featuring those who say they will never go digital.
One TV advertisement: “PGe and PG NewsSlide, who the bleep needs them. Last time I went on line they tried to track my cookies. They’ll never get my cookie recipe.”
Another TV advertisement: “Now they’re telling me PG is going digital. They can stick their digital. I’m not doing that.”
“It’s a little insensitive to the readers who really are connected to print, who really depend on print,” said [Andrew] Conte [director of Point Park University’s Center for Media Innovation].
Not true, says [Allan] Block [chairman of Block Communications that owns the PG]."
"The PG has billboards up around town and television ads on-air, featuring those who say they will never go digital.
One TV advertisement: “PGe and PG NewsSlide, who the bleep needs them. Last time I went on line they tried to track my cookies. They’ll never get my cookie recipe.”
Another TV advertisement: “Now they’re telling me PG is going digital. They can stick their digital. I’m not doing that.”
“It’s a little insensitive to the readers who really are connected to print, who really depend on print,” said [Andrew] Conte [director of Point Park University’s Center for Media Innovation].
Not true, says [Allan] Block [chairman of Block Communications that owns the PG]."
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