An article by Harlen Makemson, assistant professor in the School of Communications, has been published in the refereed journal Journalism History.
“Beat the Press: How Leading Political Cartoonists Framed Protests at the 1968 Democratic Party Convention,” examines how seven Pulitzer Prize winners portrayed anti-war demonstrations in Chicago. Strikingly absent, for the most part, from the discourse were depictions of those who caused all the security concerns in the first place-the protestors themselves. Instead, cartoonists, and the press at large, focused attention on violence that had been directed toward their own colleagues.