Buffalo Artvoice
"It's good and bad in all the same ways," says Washington Post editorial cartoonist
Tom Toles (left). "You can see the nostril hairs here much more clearly, but there is a certain distortion that comes with being so close." Toles, who left Buffalo for Washington in 2002, adds: "So many people here know so many of the other people involved so well that sometimes, I think, objectivity suffers. There comes to be a language with which issues are spoken of. It’s a circumscribed language, in that certain points of view just aren’t represented. They become sort of off-limits, as if they’re in bad form."
