Judge — May 2, 1925 — page 9: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Two Radio Satire Cartoons **Top cartoon:** "The radio broadcaster takes advantage of his job to fire the cook." A man at a microphone broadcasts "Bruget Maloney, you're fired" through a horn-speaker, while two men listen. The joke plays on radio's new power as a mass medium—using public airwaves to deliver a personal firing message. **Bottom cartoon:** A darker scene in a basement or cellar shows two figures listening to a gramophone/speaker. The caption indicates "Slick Sam" from "Station PDQ" is signing off. This appears to satirize either a disreputable radio station or the somewhat crude, unregulated nature of early broadcasting. Both cartoons mock early radio as an emerging medium—showing how its public reach could be comically misused for private purposes or how amateur/dubious broadcasters operated.