Back to the future for cartoonists?

James Gillray on the French Revolution

Aside from car­toon­ing, Matt Buck keeps an excel­lent blog. He’s been ask­ing what the future holds for polit­ical car­toon­ists, given the par­lous state of the print media, and he invokes the spirit of James Gillray: Con­tinue read­ing

The White House Press Corps: when enough is too much

Things we won’t miss about declin­ing polit­ical cov­er­age c/o John Robin­son:

From the front page of the New York Times today:

Pres­id­ent Obama’s order freez­ing the salar­ies of his senior aides and the pen he used to sign it. Doug Mills/The New York Times

Answer­ing the burn­ing ques­tion, how many news pho­to­graph­ers does it take to shoot a pen.