Baltimore Sun
Sun editoral cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher ended his 17-year career with paper on Friday. "It was made clear to me that there was a great deal of uncertainty about the position of editorial cartoonist at the paper," he says. "When I saw what was happening to cartoonists at other Tribune papers, I had to take that threat seriously." Media prof Chris Lamb says getting rid of staff cartoonists diminishes a newspaper's power to provoke thought and discussion. "An editorial cartoonist is a sort of Rush Limbaugh with brains, or a Bill O'Reilly with a sense of humor. Or, to extend the metaphor further, a Sean Hannity with brains and a sense of humor."
> Tribune PR man says: "Our newspapers make their own, independent decisions about running editorial cartoons and employing editorial cartoonists." (Sun)
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