While rennovating our home this summer, we stumbled upon some old magazines that had been used to line the floor, under the old linoleum. I set my homeschooled daughter the task of reviewing the old newspapers and comparing the content areas to a modern newspaper. In the Monday, June 23, 1960 edition of the Burlington Free Press she came across a cartoon that speaks to the media coverage of the current election.
The cartoon is "Nancy" and I did my best to take a clear picture of it to share:
Is this not the very epitome of "fair and balanced" reporting that the media is attempting to do? The media can't just say "GOP representative found lying in main walkway of home" without actively dragging out the Dem representative from its inoffensive resting place to create a similar scenario.
I'm not a "Nancy" fan, but I must admit that it pegs this issue well and I see the truth of the old sayings "a picture is worth a thousand words" and "there's nothing new under the sun"!
ps. Kudos to my daughter for laughing uproariously at this cartoon and thus focusing my attention on it.