You’re Fired.

“I was trained in a tradition in which editorial cartoonists are the live wires of a publication — as one former colleague put it, the ‘constant irritant.’ Our job is to provoke readers in a way words alone can’t. Cartoonists are not illustrators for a publisher’s politics.” 

—Rob Rogers, fired as editorial cartoonist of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette after 25 years, “I Was Fired for Making Fun of Trump,” The New York Times, June 15, 2018.

• Editorial Comment: Not funny.

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