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Showing Original Post only (View all)Long-time Iowa farm cartoonist fired after creating this cartoon [View all]
FORT DODGE, Iowa Rick Friday has been giving farmers a voice and a laugh every Friday for two decades through his cartoons in Farm News.
Now the long-time Iowa farm cartoonist tells KCCI that he has been fired.
Friday announced Sunday that his job was over after 21 years in a Facebook post that has since gone viral.
FACEBOOK POST:
"Again, I fall hard in the best interest of large corporations. I am no longer the Editorial Cartoonist for Farm News due to the attached cartoon which was published yesterday. Apparently a large company affiliated with one of the corporations mentioned in the cartoon was insulted and cancelled their advertisement with the paper, thus, resulting in the reprimand of my editor and cancellation of its Friday cartoons after 21 years of service and over 1,090 published cartoons to over 24,000 households per week in 33 counties of Iowa.
http://www.kcci.com/news/longtime-iowa-farm-cartoonist-fired-after-creating-this-cartoon/39337816
Now the long-time Iowa farm cartoonist tells KCCI that he has been fired.
Friday announced Sunday that his job was over after 21 years in a Facebook post that has since gone viral.
FACEBOOK POST:
"Again, I fall hard in the best interest of large corporations. I am no longer the Editorial Cartoonist for Farm News due to the attached cartoon which was published yesterday. Apparently a large company affiliated with one of the corporations mentioned in the cartoon was insulted and cancelled their advertisement with the paper, thus, resulting in the reprimand of my editor and cancellation of its Friday cartoons after 21 years of service and over 1,090 published cartoons to over 24,000 households per week in 33 counties of Iowa.
http://www.kcci.com/news/longtime-iowa-farm-cartoonist-fired-after-creating-this-cartoon/39337816
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SecularMotion
May 2016
OP
Thanks, censorship is in play all over the land of the free. Welcome to the Oligharchy.
haikugal
May 2016
#5
Heart breaking isn't it? I think it's supposed to be, which is why some of us will not yield!
haikugal
May 2016
#7
True -- the PTB feel it even less necessary to even keep up *that* appearance... nt
villager
May 2016
#25
Seriously? Wow, their purge is now without pretense. No more "pretending" at "D""U." nt.
villager
May 2016
#69
Remember when we were kids the government always told us how bad it was in the Soviet Union?
Enthusiast
May 2016
#60
Why yes, yes I do...I also remember the nuclear bomb drills...duck and cover, yeah that would help!
haikugal
May 2016
#62
Yeah, I saw that..silly us! We were raised to believe we had rights and to fight for them.
haikugal
May 2016
#75
That's what "journalism" means today. Applies to satirists, too. If it's not a lie, it can't be
valerief
May 2016
#64
...not about the profiteering of the toxic GMO-Herbicide-Pesticide-Fungicide Farm Borg, Inc.
AxionExcel
May 2016
#27
ooooh ZOMBIES !!! They're coming to take me away ho ho hee hee ha haaa To the funny farm Where life
vkkv
May 2016
#92
The fourth plantation is a very good description, but it sure doesn't roll of the tongue easy.
Kalidurga
May 2016
#65
It's sad that an editorial cartoonist doesn't understand the First Amendment.
bluedigger
May 2016
#30
Maybe there will be an attack by Anonymous or a phone line jam organized by Friday's supporters.
Hoppy
May 2016
#31
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise
keithbvadu2
May 2016
#33
Well, know the farmers should have all heard about it by now and know that Farm News is a
Dustlawyer
May 2016
#55
"Monsanto, DuPont Pioneer and John Deere combined made more money..."
Dont call me Shirley
May 2016
#57
True. Also true is the ravaging greed of the top layers of these mega-opolies. While 2129 hard,
Dont call me Shirley
May 2016
#93
One farmer does more hard work in one day than the 3 doughboys do in 3 years.
Dont call me Shirley
May 2016
#97
Farm News. I wonder, if they asked the farmers this publication is supposed to be for
jtuck004
May 2016
#82