Conventional thinking is our orthodoxy, though we do tend to be critical of those in power. The negativity makes readers of all stripes unhappy. But the right, having been of late both more organized and more passionate, has figured out an effective response. The other networks . All followed, of course, by that little patch of civility.
Cartoonists eschew it all.
No masquerading, no fear of looking biased, no requirement for one side and then the other, no patch of civility. The Sacramento Bee ombudsman, receiving complaints about cartoons, recently asked the Bee 's cartoonist, Rex Babin, for a response. It is biased, it distorts, it generalizes and, in doing so, works on a visceral level like nothing else. And long live the cartoonists. All rights reserved.