Item Detail
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19554
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2
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0
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English
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Political Cartooning and the Reed Smoot Hearings
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Sunstone
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December 2006
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144
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Sunstone Education Foundation
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36-40
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Journalists today often refrain from printing cartoons of certain religious figures in the newspaper. However, during the Reed Smoot hearings in 1906, Joseph F. Smith, Reed Smoot, and the Church in general were often the subjects of caricature, some of them containing "extreme language as well as undocumented and untrue rumors." Many of these were published by the Salt Lake Tribune which was owned by Thomas Kearns, a man who lost the election to the Senate to Reed Smoot, and Frank Cannon, a man who was excommunicated from the Church in 1905. Paulos appreciates the journalist trend today that extends "deference to religious figures," but also feels that journalism has taken a "step backward by becoming too cautionary in much of its coverage and commentary."