{"id":21661,"date":"2017-04-26T10:43:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T15:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=21661"},"modified":"2017-04-26T10:48:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T15:48:47","slug":"and-like-college-campuses-perhaps-newspapers-should-be-free-from-offensive-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=21661","title":{"rendered":"and like college campuses perhaps newspapers should be free from offensive politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Duluth News Tribune devoted almost an entire page to a dozen letters critical of a Steve Lindstrom cartoon that I thought was clever if a bit too easy. It showed the Dwarf &#8220;Doc&#8221; looking out of his mine at Dwarf &#8220;Dopey&#8221; who was drinking from mine waste dribbling out of the mine&#8217;s entrance. The caption explained that<em> this is how Dopey got that way<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the writers would have had the Tribune pull the cartoon like the disinvite of Coulter from UC Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/opinion\/readers-views\/4256674-readers-view-iron-rangers-are-not-mentally-damaged\">the first critical letter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That the cartoon generated such a heated response was both a testament to Steve Lindstrom&#8217;s simple idea and perhaps to today&#8217;s Blue collar resentments. <\/p>\n<p>I have not yet taken the time to read up on whether the mineral investors can be counted on to protect those of us who live downstream from their mine&#8217;s sulfides. Having a Donald Trump as our President only aggravates my concern. In the meantime, I welcome the skepticism cartoonist Lindstrom has aimed at the project just as I welcome the eruption late night humor directed at the Oval Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Duluth News Tribune devoted almost an entire page to a dozen letters critical of a Steve Lindstrom cartoon that I thought was clever&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21661"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21666,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21661\/revisions\/21666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}