The Free Press, Mankato, MN

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August 13, 2007

Your View — Newspaper’s choice of cartoons offensive

Maybe I’m just slow, but most of the time I have no idea what the editorial cartoons in The Free Press are all about.

A few days ago, there was something about a kid snorting cocaine off a sidewalk. It was supposed to mean there was a problem with kids and pretty heavy drugs, which makes sense, except I had never heard of the problem before. The rest of the paper had nothing else on the story and even when I later searched the Internet I found nothing to indicate that it is really a current event. So basically, there was no context. It’s really quite offensive.

The rest of the editorials are a collection of Star Trek images, Americans being fat and lazy, something about global warming and George Bush.

I know The Free Press doesn’t draw the cartoons but maybe they could exercise a bit more discretion in what they choose to run.

Tom Q. Johnson

Mankato

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