{"id":185,"date":"2006-12-31T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-31T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2006\/12\/31\/steve-sack-and-a-pretty-much-free-press\/"},"modified":"2006-12-31T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T23:11:00","slug":"steve-sack-and-a-pretty-much-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2006\/12\/31\/steve-sack-and-a-pretty-much-free-press\/","title":{"rendered":"steve sack and a pretty-much-free press"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>my favorite year in review<\/em> stories are those showcasing the local paper’s political cartoonist. maybe that’s because the best cartoons always strike me as inherently sociological — putting big concepts into play around a particular case. as today’s story makes clear, my minneapolis strib<\/a> <\/em>is fortunate indeed to get regular images from steve sack.<\/p>\n

op-eds are great, of course, but there’s a magical whoa! <\/em>moment when a fine cartoonist nails <\/em>a complex set of ideas in a single image. the conceptual weight of such pictures can make the accompanying editorial seem ridiculously oversimplified by comparison. <\/em>would a windy sociological essay on the meaning of civilization <\/em>and its incompatibility with torture pack the same punch as the cartoon above?<\/p>\n

i treasure my daily encounters with such powerful material over strong coffee and wheaties. <\/em>too often, i suppose, we take these first amendment moments for granted. as cartoonists found themselves at the center of intense religious conflict<\/a> this year, i was glad to see that few seemed to shrink from the controversy. if you agree, you might browse daryl cagle<\/a>‘s rich archive<\/a> of political cartoons, including many by mr. sack. did any cartoons move you this year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

my favorite year in review stories are those showcasing the local paper’s political cartoonist. maybe that’s because the best cartoons always strike me as inherently sociological — putting big concepts into play around a particular case. as today’s story makes clear, my minneapolis strib is fortunate indeed to get regular images from steve sack. op-eds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}