Why is editorial cartoon also called political cartoon? Please give a sincere and appropriate answer..
2006-06-15 01:59:20 · 2 answers · asked by timmy 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
An editorial cartoon is typically an artist's line drawing, lampooning or satirizing celebrities, political figures, heads of business, etc., usually found in daily newspapers, typically a one-panel drawing, depicting some situation or policy in its worst, but almost always its most humorous, light.
It's a way of maintaining Free Speech, another Check, or brake, on those in power, in one form or another. By satirizing a political point of view, for example, sometimes at least awareness and sometimes, real change may result.
2006-06-22 00:09:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
An editorial cartoon is called a political cartoon, because usually when I see those cartoons in my newspaper they have something to do with the politics that are going on in the US. They have something to do with Bush sometimes and other times random things about Bird Flu, gas prices, and Iraq and Iran.
2006-06-15 03:37:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋