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| Wolf Blitzer from CNN |
Wolf Blitzer is a German-American CNN reporter, journalist, and anchor. He has won many awards for journalism including “the 2004 Journalist Pillar of Justice Award from the Respect for Law Alliance, and the 2003 Daniel Pearl Award from the Chicago Press Veterans Association. His news team was among those awarded a George Foster Peabody Award for coverage of Hurricane Katrina, an Alfred I. DuPont Award for coverage of the 1999 Southeast Asian tsunami, and an Edward R. Murrow Award for CNN's coverage of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.” (Wikipedia, para. 18). Blitzer currently lives in Bethesda, Maryland. He is known for hosting political debates and asking REALLY long and detailed questions. In this political cartoon, Little Red Riding Hood entered what should have been her grandmother’s cabin and asked the popular question of “my what big ___…”
In this cartoon, she emphasized that the ‘grandmother’ was asking big questions as the character took notes in a notebook. Typical journalist depiction. The grandmother is replaced by Wolf Blitzer and Little Red Riding Hood immediately notices the difference between him and her grandmother, but not her grandmother and a wolf.
I think this semi-political cartoon is relevant because Blitzer is German-American and he lives in Maryland. The cartoon is also comical because the child was able to depict that it was Wolf Blitzer but she had to interrogate the wolf a handful of times before becoming suspicious of his identity in the original Grimm tale.
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