Charlotte Observer Cartoonist Wins Progressive Puppy Mill Award

A couple of weeks ago, the Charlotte Observer published an editorial entitled, The importance of a courageous press.  Obviously, I laughed out loud.  The Disturber is courageous?  This leftwing rag is a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party.  How courageous can one be when the majority of its articles are republished screeds from other liberal newspapers?

We mustn’t be too hard on Taylor Batten.  After all, he accompanied his cartoonist to the progressive puppy mill of journalism, Columbia University.  Mr. Kevin Siers received a Pulitzer Prize for his activist work demeaning conservatives.  If you haven’t had the displeasure of reading this fish wrap, Christmas is his favorite holiday.  You can always count on a republican portrayed as Scrooge or the Grinch.  How original!  What a talent!  I’m sure no other libtard with a crayon has drawn one of these time honored clichés.  But hey, progressives honor and celebrate other progressives at award ceremonies like the Pulitzer Prize.

Here is an excerpt of Mr. Taylor Batten’s exuberance:

Joseph Pulitzer well understood how essential a free and vigorous press was to America.

His thoughts on the subject are enshrined on a plaque at the Columbia University journalism school in New York, which was founded with his bequest in 1912.

Journalists and all Americans would do well to examine them closely:

“Our republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.”

As I stood before that plaque last week, its words struck me as especially relevant in 2014. Our republic and its press are rising and falling together, and each institution needs to recommit itself to Pulitzer’s vision. Due to technology and mankind’s penchant to always find a way to make a buck, the press has splintered in recent years. Today the American media landscape includes more cynical, mercenary and demagogic elements than it has in a very long time. As Pulitzer predicted, that is creating a people as base as itself, and threatening to make popular government a sham.

First of all, Joseph Pulitzer was a yellow journalist hack.  He had to create a prize as a means to obfuscate his cynical, mercenary and demagogic past.  And as usual, Mr. Batten is the first to cast stones.  Maybe the Disturber’s editor should look in the mirror and reflect on what an able, disinterested, public-spirited press with trained intelligence can be, because the Charlotte Observer has made a mockery of public virtue and popular government.

Source: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/05/31/4943324/the-importance-of-a-courageous.html#.U5eg6vldWXE#storylink=cpy