Here is why I detest the way the mass media covers the 2012 Presidential campaign. This data is based on what I see on cable TV while I'm in the kitchen at work (a television is mounted on the wall, always turned on).
I recently stumbled across some cartoons by J. Jonik. Here's how he describes his work:
Many, or most, of these cartoons have been published in periodicals and leaflets and web-sites, etc., around the USA, and some in Germany, the UK and Australia...and beyond. Publications have included Z Magazine, Extra! (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), Public Citizen, Earth First! Journal, POCLAD, Food and Water, Solidarity, Synthesis-Regeneration, Compost Dispatch, Philadelphia Daily News, University City Review (Phila.), Green Left Weekly (Australia), Green Pages, Hawaii Island Journal, Funny Times, Wild Earth, Dollars and Sense, Dissent, Earth Island Journal, North Coast Xpress, Anderson Valley Advertiser, The Prism, The Partisan, Orion, Tox CAT (UK- Communities Against Toxics), Boycott Quarterly, Friends of the Earth, and others that I will add to this list when I remember them. Cartoons have been, or still are, also used at web sites of various activist groups such as NORML, and various Single Payer health care advocates. A bunch of cartoons were scattered throughout "Censored 2008" Project Censored's 2008 annual collection of top 25 Censored Stories, and in Teishan Latner's "The Quotable Rebel", an invaluable book of quotes that are especially usable by political activists.Jonik makes his cartoons available to non-commercial sites. Thus, I'm going to share a few of my favorites:
[More . . . ]
You won't hear the mass media talking about Rocky Anderson. You won't hear Anderson speaking at any of the Presidential Debates, because the corporations that run our elections will make sure that Anderson is not invited to any of these debates. Anderson, a two-term mayor of Salt Lake City, is running as the nominee of the Justice Party. He is sorely disappointed in Barack Obama's decision to support passage of NDAA. He is a strong believer in the need to take definite steps to reduce production of greenhouse gasses (he took serious steps as Mayor). He very much supports the aims of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. He challenges Americans to reject the "fear-driven argument" that they must vote for one of the two dominant political parties. [More . . . ]
This extraordinarily well-conceived cartoon is by David Horsey, cartoonist for the LA Times.
David Horsey Los Angeles Times Aug 21, 2012 |
Think Progress reviews the highlights of what is, for the most part, a massively dysfunctional set of priorities. I am in favor, though, of ongoing audits of the Federal Reserve. I do need to give credit where it is due.
