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McClatchy-owned newspapers cut editorial cartoons

Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Kevin Siers has been fired after 36 years with The Charlotte Observer. It is part of a national trend of moving away from opinion content in the struggling print industry.

The McClatchy chain that owns The Observer and 29 other U.S. newspapers recently announced it would no longer run editorial cartoons. In a statement, the publishing company cited a focus on local news and changing reader habits, with countless places to access opinion pieces online.

Another contributor is the growing corporate control and consolidation of the news media.

University of North Carolina at Greensboro political scientist and author of Laughter as Politics: Critical Theory in an Age of Hilarity, Patrick Giamario, says the corporations that own many of the legacy media organizations want to appear as apolitical and above the fray as possible. But he adds this fear of angering readers and losing subscribers is misplaced.

"The purpose of a newspaper is not only provide readers with the facts, but to prompt them to think about those facts in ways that they might not have considered before, or might not have been included in the sort of more objective straight news stories themselves," says

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The Decline of Editorial Cartoons and Opinion Pages

Even during a year of sobering economic news for media companies, the layoffs of three Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonists on a single day hit like a gut punch. The firings of the cartoonists employed by the McClatchy newspaper chain last week were a stark reminder of how an influential art form is dying, part of a general trend away from opinion content in the struggling print industry.

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McClatchy insists that local opinion journalism remains central to its mission. The Miami Herald, a McClatchy newspaper, won a Pulitzer this year for “Broken Promises,” a series of editorials about a failure to rebuild troubled areas in southern Florida. In the current atmosphere, however, opinion is less valued. Gannett, the nation’s largest chain with more than 200 newspapers, said last year the papers would only offer opinion pages a couple of days a week. Its executives reasoned that these pages were not heavily read, and surveys showed readers did not want to be lectured to. That also meant less room for cartoons. The reasoning is there are plenty of places to find opinion online, particularly on national issues. Political endorsements are more infrequent at newspapers. In 2020, only 54 of the nation’s top 100 newspap