Posted on 03/11/2002 10:56:31 AM PST by IowaHawk
Survivors are getting a million dollars from the government ...and survivors are getting over a million from the funds sent in by the people of the U.S.
Last night the 911 documentary was so well presented. It was powerful, shocking, and with brief glimpses of sponsering Nextel and CBS, also the posting of where to sent funds. Tonight the lighting of the memorial site will be powerful with meaning also. Notice that requests for funds are on going.
As long as people will respond to requests for money ... even though the vaults are full ...they will continue to be made.
I see the cartoon as shining a light onto a real occurring situation.
And the worst of all sins, it's not funny. But I'm glad there's an audience for it, I suppose. I just have higher standards. And that's not saying much.
I think its a good illustration of how we think TV is an all-purpose elixor, it can solve anything -- our local news has a segment called "Problem Solvers" where they apply media pressure to correct a local atrocity.
So mix "Problem Solvers" with "Montel" or "Maury" and this is what you get.
Want the world to pray for the safe return of your husband, well step up into the pulpit...
TV is our Church. Government our God.
Bad analogy. Putting dog waste in a paper bag on someone's doorstep, setting it alight, then knocking on the door and running can be quality entertainment. You however slander dog waste by comparing it to Ted Rall.
I don't know who started with that style first, but somebody is the ripoff artist there! Those two cartoons look incredibly similar.
Ted Rall was born in Cambridge MA in 1963, raised in Kettering OH and graduated from high school in 1981. His first cartoons were published in the Kettering-Oakwood (OH) Times in 1980. He majored in physics at Columbia University’s School of Engineering from 1981 until 1984, where he drew cartoons for the Columbia Daily Spectator.
In 1984, Rall was expelled from Columbia Engineering for both disciplinary and academic reasons. Giving up cartooning, he became a trader/trainee at Bear, Stearns brokerage firm and a loan officer at the Industrial Bank of Japan. He also moonlighted as a telemarketer and taxi driver.
Inspired after meeting guerrilla artist Keith Haring in 1986, Rall began posting his cartoons on New York City streets. He eventually picked up 12 clients through self-syndication. In 1990, he quit Wall Street to return to Columbia, where he graduated with honors in history in 1991. Later that year, Rall’s cartoons were signed for national syndication by the now-defunct San Francisco Chronicle Syndicate. He moved to Universal Press Syndicate in 1996.
His cartoons now appear in more than a hundred publications, including the Baltimore Sun, Atlanta Constitution, Toronto Star, Philadelphia Daily News, Newark Star-Ledger, Los Angeles Times, Z Magazine, The Nation, Harrisburg (PA) Patriot-News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sacramento News & Review, San Jose Mercury-News, Des Moines Register, St. Paul Pioneer-Press, Asbury Park Press, San Francisco Examiner and New York Times. Despite his original drawing style, Rall is a traditionalist in the vein of Thomas Nast, who saw editorial cartoons as a vehicle for change more than a source of humorous gags about current events. His focus is on issues important to young adults, such as un- and underemployment, the environment and pop culture, but also comments on political and social trends.
In 1997, Universal Press Syndicate began distributing Rall’s weekly opinion column, dubbed "Op-Ed Writing for Americans Under 65". It has appeared in The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Amsterdam News, Omaha Reader, Detroit Metro Times, San Francisco Examiner, International Herald-Tribune, and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He is also a staff writer for P.O.V. magazine.
Aside from exposure in the mainstream media, Rall’s cartoons and writing appears in such alternative venues as The Met in Dallas, Kansas City New Times, Sacramento News and Tribune, Maximum Rocknroll, Hypno, Against The Current, The Progressive Populist and Shrimp Cocktail.
Two early collections of cartoons, Waking Up In America (St. Martin’s Press, 1992) and All The Rules Have Changed (Rip Off Press, 1995) are now out of print. Rall’s critically-acclaimed first graphic novel, Real Americans Admit: The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done! (NBM, 1996), collects real-life stories of people’s worst deeds in comic form, and was the first-place winner of the first annual 1997 Firecracker Alternative Book Award.
A book of essays and cartoons about generational politics, Revenge of the Latchkey Kids (Workman Publishing, 1998), received widespread critical acclaim. Workman published a Page-a-Day calendar of his work in 1998, as well as a 1999 wall calendar. Rall’s second graphic novel, My War With Brian (NBM, 1998) has just hit stores.
Rall received first place in the 1995 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for Cartoons. The award, founded in 1968, recognizes distinguished work designed to help the disadvantaged. And in 1996, he was one of three Finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. He was the New York Times’ most reprinted cartoonist in 1997, and began doing color strips for both Time Magazine and Fortune Magazine in 1998. He was awarded the 1998 Deadline Club Award by the Society of Professional Journalists for his cartoons, and his web site, www.rall.com, was picked as a Yahoo! "Pick of the Week."
From the article:
One of the very worst cartoons apparently was based on the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The widow is saying: "Of course it's a bummer that they slashed my husband's throat -- but the worst part was having to watch the Olympics alone!"
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