Friday was fired a day after the cartoon was published in a local Iowa newspaper.
Source: Monsanto Strikes Again: Cartoonist Fired over Pro-Farmer Strip
Cartoonist Rick Friday was fired for a cartoon lampooning Monsanto a day before World Press Freedom Day.
It’s not entirely Monsanto’s fault but you better believe they knew what would happen– so maybe it is. They didn’t just pull a few ads they pulled them all. They absolutely knew what would happen.
But, I tell you who should be fired and it’s not the cartoonist Rick Friday. In my opinion Larry Kershner the Editor is the one that should be immediately terminated. For the love of advertising money he fired a cartoonist for simply being a cartoonist, and who had been working with the the paper for 21 years.
The editor, Larry Kershner writes on the paper’s website: “I am currently news editor for Farm News, an Ogden Newspapers publication based in Fort Dodge, Iowa. I have been a working journalist since 1981. I’ve worked for magazines and weekly and daily newspapers in California, Minnesota and Iowa. I have won my share of awards in several categories of reporting in Minnesota and Iowa,”.
He should give his “Awards” back.
All of them.
Just my opinion.