Here’s a cartoon that I posted, and then decided to take down. Hurricane Irma was big and terrible, and when it did much less damage to Florida than expected, it looked like the story was fading from the news.
I thought that was a good time to take a shot at CNN for its silly “stand in the rain and talk breathlessly” coverage that was a big ratings booster for them.
We had a transition day when this seemed like it would be a good cartoon, but now we’re getting some terrible scenes of devastation from the U.S. Virgin Islands, which deserves breathless coverage. I thought the cartoon was insensitive and I took it down.
I’ll let the cartoon live here on my blog, just to remind me to do better next time!
— Editorial cartoonist Daryl Cagle lives in Montecito and runs the CagleCartoons.com news syndicate, distributing editorial cartoons to more than 850 news sites and newspapers around the world, including Noozhawk. Contact him at editor@cagle.com, follow his blog at www.darylcagle.com and follow him on Twitter: @dcagle. Click here for previous cartoons. The opinions expressed are his own.