You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to. If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. Its generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in. In December 2015, Texas Senator Ted Cruz shared a campaign video.
TED CRUZ DAUGHTERS POLITICAL CARTOON TV
It followed a new Cruz campaign TV ad in which the Texas senator shares with his wife and two young children faux Christmas stories entitled, How. presidential campaigns when it published - and then retracted - a political cartoon portraying Republican candidate Ted Cruz as an organ grinder and his daughters as monkeys. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. The Washington Post ignited a debate over the role of children in U.S. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad- don’t start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well.About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: However, Telnaes clarified her position on Twitter, writing:
We reached out to Hiatt and to Telnaes for comment, but both directed us back to the above statement. Earlier Tuesday, The Washington Post had published a cartoon by Ann Telnaes, the paper's editorial cartoonist, that depicted Senator Cruz dressed like Santa Claus accompanied by his two daughters. I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree. I failed to look at this cartoon before it was published. The Washington Post pulled a controversial editorial cartoon on Tuesday night that had depicted Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz's young daughters as dancing monkeys. Meanwhile, Cruz himself is portrayed wearing a Santa Claus suit holding a crank music box to which the girls’ leashes are attached.
It’s generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. The Post cartoonist, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ann Telnaes, drew up a Christmas-themed cartoon where the senator’s 5 and 7 year-old daughters are portrayed as monkeys on a leash. The cartoon was up for several hours before the Washington Post’s editorial editor, Fred Hiatt, retracted it and issued the following statement in its place:
The cartoon, which was created by Pulitzer Prize winner Ann Telnaes, depicted Senator Ted Cruz as an organ grinder while two monkeys - apparently depicting his 4-year-old and 7-year-old daughters - danced in front of him. The Washington Post has pulled a political cartoon from its site - a rare move for a major newspaper.