The Constant Cacophony of Cancelling Cancel Culture
March 23rd, 2022 Barry Posted in Media criticism | No Comments »
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TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has five panels.
PANEL 1
This panel shows two news anchors sitting in a TV studio facing the camera. The angle is from the camera’s perspective, as if we were watching them on TV. A circular logo superimposed on the image says “5” (as in channel 5) and a chyron runs across the bottom of the image.
(Chyron this panel says: “Free Speech in Peril! Young people are frightening. They’re coming after you.”)
The anchors are a man and a woman. They are both well-dressed and have professionally styled hair. Both speak to the camera with very serious expressions.
MALE ANCHOR: Tonight on WMSM: the first of our seventeen part series on the horrors of cancel culture!
FEMALE ANCHOR: America has a free speech problem! We’ve lost our long established right to speak without fear of being shamed.
PANEL 2
A close-up on the male anchor. He looks genuinely angry.
(Chyron this panel says: “Prison Censorship is an issue we’re not going to be covering whatsoever.”)
MALE ANCHOR: Especially on college campuses! Surveys show that students sometimes self-censor because they’re afraid of criticism! Something that has never before happened in all of history!
PANEL 3
This panel shows a hand holding a smartphone. On the smartphone screen, we can see the female anchor talking. She also looks angry and intense.
FEMALE ANCHOR: Next up: a college student “saw people shift in their seats” when they disagreed with her! Will left wing assaults on free speech never end?
PANEL 4
This is an unusually narrow panel, less than a third as wide as other panels. The panel shows the male anchor, still talking to the camera, but the figure is tiny. He’s smiling and raising a finger in a “just making a point” manner.
(Chyron this panel: “Tiny Type is rarely re (the word is cut off by the panel edge). Tiny type tiny type tiny type tiny type”)
MALE ANCHOR (small print): To show we’re unbiased, I will briefly mention that the right is writing laws to ban books, stifle teachers and even legalize running over protesters, and those things are also bad. Now back to our story.
PANEL 5
A new scene. Two people are standing; the second of them is holding a tablet, which they’re frantically tapping (sound effect: tap tap tap tap tap tap).
The first person is a black woman wearing what looks like a bowling shirt (meaning I drew a shirt with vertical stripes and it accidently came out as a bowling shirt) and carryign a purse. She has short curly hair. She looks a little concerned as she speaks to the second person.
The second person has long hair, in an unnatural red color, in long spikes and with an undercut. Their left arm is covered with tattoos. They’re frantically tapping the tablet they’re holding (sound effect: tap tap tap tap tap tap), have a panicked expression, and they’re talking loudly.
FIRST PERSON: Would you mind turning that off?
SECOND PERSON: IT WON’T STOP!
