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 | | Political cartoons had the ability to reach both the literate and the illiterate, and Nast's cartoons outraged the public against Tweed and the Tammany Ring. |
 | | Nast's cartoons greatly increased circulation in the periodicals in which they appeared, providing "reinforcement at both the surface and deeper mythic levels of pervasive prejudices and majority values; and (perhaps most telling), a mean intensity rooted in malevolence to produce an immediate impact" (Fischer, 23). |
 | | Cartoons are, by some, considered to "invoke not only truth but a higher artistic truth, above the ethical parameters of the printed word" (Fischer, 16), even if the facts are not consistent with their pictorial representation of the situation. |
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