The political cartoon featured in the editorial page of the Saturday, June 4, Recorder is spectacularly vile and offensive. The rhetoric of this year’s campaigns has threatened to become nearly as bad as that of the 1964 election. What next? A cartoon version of a little girl disappearing in a mushroom cloud?
Any references to Nazis should be automatically off limits between now and the election. If anyone wants their “fix” of hatred they can find plenty of that garbage on the Internet, but respectable newspapers don’t need that, nor do their readers.
Perhaps you should consider leaving a six-by-six blank space on the editorial page each day that you cannot find anything truly amusing with gentle wit, humor and irony. The space could contain a small statement of explanation, “There are no suitable cartoons available today. If you want filth, venom and libelous invective, check the Internet.”
Your new format seems to respect the value of blank spaces, and this is a good place to exercise that value.
Janet E. Keyes
Greenfield