{"id":365788,"date":"2018-06-17T21:14:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T20:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/political-cartoonist-fired-by-right-wing-pittsburgh-post-gazette-editors-over-anti-trump-cartoons\/"},"modified":"2018-06-17T21:14:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T20:14:36","slug":"political-cartoonist-fired-by-right-wing-pittsburgh-post-gazette-editors-over-anti-trump-cartoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/political-cartoonist-fired-by-right-wing-pittsburgh-post-gazette-editors-over-anti-trump-cartoons\/","title":{"rendered":"Political cartoonist fired by right-wing Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editors over anti-Trump cartoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Political cartoonist fired by right-wing Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editors over anti-Trump cartoons<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Kayla Costa<br \/>\n    <br \/>16 June 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The <em>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/em> fired political cartoonist Rob Rogers on Thursday, after weeks of editors blocking his content from the publication. The newspaper\u2019s censorship coincides with the rise of openly pro-Trump members on the editorial board.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers is an acclaimed political cartoonist, who has won a number of awards including the National Headliner Award and Thomas Nast Award. Having worked for the <em>Post-Gazette<\/em> since 1993, Rogers has only recently faced rejection of his political content. Nineteen of his ideas and cartoons have been rejected since March, according to his own count.<\/p>\n<p>Tracey DeAngelo, an executive from the newspaper, said that their decisions \u201chad little to do with politics\u201d and more to do with the \u201cworking together and the editing process.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageFull\" style=\"width:480px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/d3a35eaf-86bf-4618-bb5b-e6c52fb7722I\/image.jpg?rendition=image480\" srcset=\"\/asset\/d3a35eaf-86bf-4618-bb5b-e6c52fb7722I\/image.jpg?rendition=image960 2x\" width=\"480\" style=\"width:480px;\" \/><span>One of Rogers&#8217; cartoons which was blocked from publication<\/span><\/div>\n<p>However, the content of Rogers\u2019 artwork places politics at the center of any editorial discussion. Of the cartoons that were rejected by the editors, many were highly critical of the anti-democratic and anti-immigrant policies of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers\u2019 rejected cartoons referenced President Trump\u2019s discussion of pardoning himself from the ongoing investigation into supposed Russian meddling in the 2016 election, his far-right attack on basic democratic rights and his brutal immigration policies. He also depicted topics relating to racism, including the recent moves by the National Football League (NFL) to force players to stand during the national anthem in the wake of demonstrations against police brutality.<\/p>\n<p>The paper\u2019s editors did not give an explanation to Rogers as to why these cartoons would not&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/06\/16\/pitt-j16.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Political cartoonist fired by right-wing Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editors over anti-Trump cartoons By Kayla Costa 16 June 2018 The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette fired political cartoonist Rob Rogers on Thursday, after weeks of editors blocking his content from the publication. The newspaper\u2019s censorship coincides with the rise of openly pro-Trump members on the editorial board. Rogers is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-365788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}