Credit: G. B. Trudeau / Universal Press Syndicate.
It was a week ago that all the papers threw up their hands in mutual pretended concern that Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury did his Nov 5 strip early, predicting Barak Obama for the win. How to handle this delicate situation? Most papers decided to take the “risk” and run it. Not the LA Times.
First the Times decided not to run it.
Times editors have decided that in the interest of accuracy, it would be best to wait to see the results of the election.
They changed their minds, however, when readers wrote in. Much sarcasm ensued.
I applaud the L.A. Times decision to wait until the election before running Doonesbury’s strip where Obama wins “in the interest of accuracy.” But in the interest of accuracy the Times should also withhold Non Sequitur, Mutts, Get Fuzzy and Tundra (animals don’t really talk). Also stop Brewster Rockit: Space Guy (he’s not really in space). Just don’t tell the editors that Snoopy can’t fly his doghouse.
Bill Becher
Westlake Village
Here’s part of the suspect strip. Personally, I found the repetitious “We Did It,” and “Now I’m proud to be an American” so annoying that I deleted every MySpace friend and Twitter friend that said it. And, no, that won’t be in any of my cartoons!
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