{"id":972,"date":"2011-08-12T05:50:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T10:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/?p=972"},"modified":"2011-08-12T05:50:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T10:50:38","slug":"mistaking-exaggeration-for-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"Mistaking Exaggeration for Advocacy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GRPR078.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-973\" title=\"GRPR078.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GRPR078.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"377\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Grand Rapids Press<\/em>,\u00a0August 6,\u00a02011<\/p>\n<p>The proliferation of outlets for people\u2019s opinions has had, I believe, a specific detrimental effect on editorial cartoons. With blogs and comment boards and talk radio\/TV, more and more people can opine more strongly, more boldly, and with less editing, which pushes discourse to the extreme in order to stand out and be heard. Historically, editorial cartoons have used exaggeration to make their point. They are not intended to be taken at face value &#8212; they are often meant to be ridiculous and entertaining to reveal a truth by contrast. Unfortunately, I think more and more readers miss the exaggeration and assume pure advocacy.<\/p>\n<p>So in this cartoon, for instance. I\u2019m not saying all our country\u2019s problems can be solved by reading books to kids. I\u2019m simply saying that some of time spent going on and on about what is the best for \u201cthe future of the children\u201d (re: the recent debt ceiling debate) could be much more effective by actually, you know, spending time with our children. (Note: The book the kid is holding is \u201cOlivia\u201d by Ian Falconer, which is one of my all-time favorites.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Grand Rapids Press,\u00a0August 6,\u00a02011 The proliferation of outlets for people\u2019s opinions has had, I believe, a specific detrimental effect on editorial cartoons. With blogs and comment boards and talk radio\/TV, more and more people can opine more strongly, more boldly, and with less editing, which pushes discourse to the extreme in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-rapids-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}