New Yorker publishes cartoon captions
The magazine shared a collection of captions for its cartoons.
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New Yorker publishes cartoon captions
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What this story says
- The New Yorker published a collection of cartoon captions.
- Several Australian news outlets published digests about cartoons.
- The West Central Tribune published a digest about an editorial cartoon.
- The cartoon in the West Central Tribune depicted the US Department of War livestreaming an execution.
Who covered it
Percentages are shares of the 6 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. Coverage measured .
Trust
30/100
Craft
45/100
Hype
15/100
6 sources · methodology
Thin on the right so far
Only 1 of the 6 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.
This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.
The New Yorker published a collection of cartoon captions from its October 19, 2026 issue. The captions included lines such as “Just like a Cro-Mag to bring a club to a rock fight” and “This morning, I woke up from anxious dreams, and found myself transformed into an insect, but of course guess who isn’t allowed to work from home.”
Cartoon depictions
The West Central Tribune published a digest about an editorial cartoon by John Darkow. This cartoon depicted the U.S. Department of War livestreaming an execution. The Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Times, WA Today, and The Age published digests about cartoons, stating they were interpretations of the news of the day by artists and illustrators.
What the coverage left out
None of the left-rated digests mention the editorial cartoon depicting the U.S. Department of War livestreaming an execution. None of the centre or right-rated reports mention the collection of cartoon captions published by The New Yorker.
Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 4 times, most recently on 12 Oct 2026, 16:00, and will add the sides that appear.
How each side covered it
Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.
Left
4 rated outlets
- The left-rated reports focused on the New Yorker's publication of cartoon captions. The Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Times, and The Age published digests that stated the news of the day was interpreted by artists, illustrators, and cartoonists. The New Yorker's full report provided a list of cartoon captions.
Centre
1 rated outlet
- The centre-rated report from WA Today published a digest stating that cartoons interpret the news of the day. This digest was not the outlet's own words.
Right
1 rated outlet
- The right-rated report from the West Central Tribune published a digest about an editorial cartoon. The digest stated that cartoonist John Darkow drew the U.S. Department of War livestreaming an execution. This digest was not the outlet's own words.
Questions about this coverage
- How did the left and right cover New Yorker publishes cartoon captions?
- Of the 6 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 67% are rated left, 16% are rated centre, 17% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
- Is New Yorker publishes cartoon captions left or right?
- Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 6 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
- Is the coverage of New Yorker publishes cartoon captions biased?
- New Yorker publishes cartoon captions is one event reported by 6 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
- Which side is not reporting New Yorker publishes cartoon captions?
- When we first saw this story, outlets rated right had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
- Which outlets covered New Yorker publishes cartoon captions?
- 6 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
- What did The New Yorker publish?
- The New Yorker published a collection of cartoon captions from its October 19, 2026 issue. These captions offered humorous or observational commentary on various themes.
- What was depicted in the West Central Tribune's editorial cartoon?
- The West Central Tribune published a digest about an editorial cartoon by John Darkow. This cartoon depicted the U.S. Department of War livestreaming an execution.
- What did the Australian news outlets report on?
- The Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Times, WA Today, and The Age published digests about cartoons. They stated that these were interpretations of the day's news by artists and illustrators.
Read it at the source
6 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.
Left
4- Best of cartoons, October 13, 2026 (opens Brisbane Times in a new tab)
Brisbane Times — is Brisbane Times biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Best of cartoons, October 13, 2026 (opens Sydney Morning Herald in a new tab)
Sydney Morning Herald — is Sydney Morning Herald biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Cartoons from the October 19, 2026, Issue (opens The New Yorker in a new tab)
The New Yorker — is The New Yorker biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Best of cartoons, October 12, 2026 (opens The Age in a new tab)
Centre
1Right
1Not rated
0No outlet in this group ran the story.
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