Archive for Saturday, March 1, 2003
Can You Have It Both Ways?
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While reading your newspaper's account of the well-deserved award given to your fine editorial cartoonist, Matt Scharf, I was appalled to notice that one of the cartoons submitted for consideration of merit was the one regarding the local Montessori school charter application.
Wasn't that the one that, after running, you spilled enough ink to fill the entire editorial page with a lame disclaimer, trying to distance your newspaper from the cartoonist's work? Isn't that the cartoon you labeled as being mean-spirited and displaying such unfairness to not deserve publication? How was it then so worthy of your submission to the Colorado Press Association's newspaper contest? Does that mean you really liked it or you didn't?
Let's see: left side of mouth saying "bad, bad" and right side saying, "this work is so good you should give it a prize."
Somehow I feel oddly like running down Lincoln Avenue yelling, in my best Gomer Pyle accent, "citizen's arreeesst, citizen's arreeesst!"
Come on Mr. Stanford, you can't have it both ways. (Then again, sadly, as editor, I guess you can.)
Here's a suggestion: Let award-winning creative talents like Mr. Scharf's run. Quit pulling in on the reins. You'll spark dialogue from the local citizenry and perhaps create a community of civic-minded doers instead of a bunch of loud whiners.
Rick Bear
Steamboat Springs
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