Chan Lowe cartoon: Broward corruption sweep
Naturally, the idea for this cartoon appealed to the career newspaperman in me.
It's not the stretch that you would think, either. How would the Feds have even known to stage multiple sting operations of local government figures if newspapers hadn't been watchdogging and digging up dirt about corruption, year after year?
The alleged criminals certainly weren't going to advertise it themselves, and everybody in our business knows that TV "news" operations wouldn't know what to report about if they didn't have a paper to read every morning (That's unfair. They learn about those bloody car accidents, fires and crimes from police and emergency scanners).
Anyway, nothing's more entertaining than a good perp walk. In school board member Beverly Gallagher's case, it was a perp "sprint," an act beautifully captured on our front page by photographer Mike Stocker in an image that will be forever seared into Broward political history.
A great day for the Feds, for better government, for the media, and even for voters, if they would just get engaged and stop automatically voting for the person they'd heard of.
CHAN LOWE has been the Sun Sentinel’s first and only editorial cartoonist for the past twenty-six years. Before that, he worked as cartoonist and writer for the Oklahoma City Times and the Shawnee (OK) News-Star.
Comments
Print is Dead
Posted by: Dr. Egon Spengler | September 24, 2009 3:08 PM
Egon,
Funny, that sounds like something Louis Tully would
say. Hmmmmm...
Posted by: Roger c. | September 24, 2009 3:36 PM
What do you mean, "How would they know?" - the same way you know when a politician is lying - their lips are moving! They could run their corruption probe in any randomly selected spot on the map and get the same results.
Posted by: Tom | September 24, 2009 5:02 PM
It's pretty sad that the best use for a newspaper now-a-days is for hiding your face... There used to be a day when you'd see a paper in everyone's yard in the morning.
Unfortunatley, it all went downhill when the Sun Sentinel hired Chan to do carnival drawings.
Hey Chan, I got another use for the paper when I see your drawings. Let's just say it involves me going to the toilet.
Posted by: cn | September 24, 2009 6:26 PM
Hey Chan Hater,
Why are you still reading his
stuff 25 years later then?
Posted by: robertelrand | September 24, 2009 6:42 PM