Canada: Cartoonist Fired Over Illustration of Trump and Drowned Migrants

[TomSea]

Canada:

Cartoonist Fired Over Illustration of Trump and Drowned Migrants

Michael de Adder went to Twitter on Friday to reveal that he was “let go” from all the newspapers owned by Brunswick News; the Moncton Times-Transcript, Fredericton Daily Gleaner, Telegraph-Journal and Telegraph Journal Saint John in New Brunswick, Canada.

This came only two days after de Adder published a cartoon that depicts a viral photo of the drowning of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his 23-month-old daughter, Valeria, in the Rio Grande River as they tried to cross the Mexico-US border highlighting the US border crisis.

More at: https://www.albawaba.com/node/cartoonist-fired-over-illustration-trump-and-drowned-migrants-1294568

First off, this isn't like the old days of newspapers, if the newspaper editors got a cartoon they didn't like, they didn't have to publish it. I wonder how this happened? Did the cartoonist Michael de Adder post it on the net??

That said, de Adder might be a hateful idiot but he has freedom of speech nonetheless, well, I mean, it is in Canada, I would be saying if he pulled this in the USA. And newspapers have a right to fire people too.

[Sanguine]

This looks like the same cartoon someone posted here in Political Graphics and then complained when it got pulled.

[TomSea]

Thanks, I removed image then.  I saw some of his other work. The cartoonist does seem pretty mean-spirited.

[Sanguine]

Thanks, I removed image then.  I saw some of his other work. The cartoonist does seem pretty mean-spirited.

Yes, I agree.  Very mean spirited. 

[thackney]

First off, this isn't like the old days of newspapers, if the newspaper editors got a cartoon they didn't like, they didn't have to publish it. I wonder how this happened? ...

Looks like they often don't run his.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/political-cartoonist-says-he-lost-his-job-after-illustration-of-trump-golfing-over-dead-migrants-went-viral/

In a series of tweets, de Adder implied the cartoon may have been the final straw, but that he was often fearful of submitting anything Trump-related since his cartoons in the past depicting the president had all been rejected: "Does it matter if I was fired over one Donald Trump cartoon when every Donald Trump cartoon I submitted in the past year was axed?"

[Hoodat]

Canada doesn't have a First Amendment.

(And if leftists get their way, the US won't have one either.)

[Cyber Liberty]

This looks like the same cartoon someone posted here in Political Graphics and then complained when it got pulled.

Thanks, I removed image then.  I saw some of his other work. The cartoonist does seem pretty mean-spirited.

The troller who posted it seems rather mean spirited too.

[TomSea]

Canada doesn't have a First Amendment.

(And if leftists get their way, the US won't have one either.)

I don't know what Canada's laws are but it is one thing say if one draws a cartoon on Netanyahu, it's another say, if one makes an anti-semitic statement, to use as an example.

[XenaLee]

The troller who posted it seems rather mean spirited too.

Zing!