Tuesday, April 13, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
'Learn to Speak Tea Bag' cartoonist wins Pulitzer - '...The video, which was originally posted in November 2009, attracted a lot of criticism from conservatives. NPR officials declined to withdraw the cartoon -- although they later added the label OPINION -- but Alicia Shepard, NPR's ombudsman, said it had significant problems. "Chief among them is it doesn't fit with NPR values, one of which is a belief in civility and civil discourse," Shepard wrote. "Fiore is talented, but this cartoon is just a mean-spirited attack on people who think differently than he does and doesn't broaden the debate. It engages in the same kind of name-calling the cartoon supposedly mocks." The update: It was announced yesterday that Mark Fiore won the Pulitzer Prize...'
