National Recovery Administration: Political Cartoon Analysis

In this political cartoon we clearly see a call to the National Recovery Administration (NRA) after taking into consideration the fact that it was created by Jim Morin in direct correlation to the shooting at the movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. We can see that this was made to mock the United States Government and its lack of initiative in resolving the tragedy that occurred. The man with the NRA hat is clearly controlling the government as they say that “we…will do nothing about it,” showing their strong influence over the nation’s leaders and their authority.
This cartoon is considered bias because it can be inferred that the author does not support the Governments coward nature to the NRA’s policy. The representation of the gun held by

the man to the right can be interpreted as a critic implying that fire-arms and its rules should be strictly controlled, not as lenient as the NRA allows them to be. These inferences can be supported by the government’s inability to be able to do anything about the incident because of the NRA’s continued influence due to the strict favoring of the second amendment.
The media has progressively changed over the years it has been around, the evolution of the internet has helped people all over the world access various media outlets that can change the viewpoints they have. The creator of each media source only portrays what they believe to be valuable information, their own biased opinion, making it difficult to obtain the raw news. When political news is shown it is either represented in the eyes of the Democratic Party or Republican Party. This makes it even more difficult for politicians to keep their images clean, because they are under a microscope at all hours of the day being picked apart constantly.