Tag Archive 'The New Yorker'

Another Ageist Stereotype From the Mainstream Media

No Outrage As The Elderly Are Treated as Second Class Citizens By The Mainstream Media
Hot on the heels of a Seattle Post-Intelligencer response to the New Yorker cartoon depicting John McCain using an ageist stereotype is Vanity Fair. Like the Seattle P-I cartoon the Vanity Fair version features John McCain in typical liberal mockery of [...]

Leonard Pitts Among Intellectual Elites That Say Satire is Tricky

His point is that when you say outlandish things with a straight face, which is the essence of satire, there’s always the danger that someone will think you aren’t kidding.
So I feel The New Yorker’s pain. The magazine is under fire for a cover illustration depicting Barack Obama in the Oval Office wearing a turban, [...]