Last week, a story was making the rounds about a column written about suburban Chicago newspaper running television ads boasting of the awards won by a cartoonist it had fired months before. On the surface, it seems pretty slimy, and it seems pretty juicy. No surprise it picked up steam. Criticizing the heartless newspaper companies is about as fashionable as it gets in the cartooning world.
But now Editor & Publisher has a follow-up that shows the good guys and bad guys might not be as obvious as initially suspected, particularly since the media ethics critic who wrote the original column didn’t even talk to some of the people he quoted and misled some of those he actually did speak to.