Once again, last week’s political cartoon essentially constitutes a hateful, right wing screed.
The subject matter of the January 19, 2013 cartoon is deeply offensive as it erases the tragedy of the 20 young lives lost in the school shooting at Newtown and presents those children instead as dehumanized “human shields” in a politically motivated assault on the second amendment. Disgusting. Surely our discussion of gun violence must be more nuanced and responsible than this.
Freedom of the press is one thing. The sanctimonious and irrational bias consistently presented by this Carson cartoonist week after week is another. As journalists, you do our community no service by disseminating such an unbalanced perspective.
Carol Miller
Grand Marais
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