The Buffalo Newspaper Guild postponed an event at a local museum Thursday after receiving threats of violence aimed at a cartoonist whose work was featured in an exhibit.
“We wholly condemn the individuals who have chosen to twist a positive, public event into an attempt to terrorize and silence [cartoonist Adam] Zyglis, spread fear among journalists and their supporters, and distort the mission of a free press,” the guild wrote in a statement.
The threats against Zyglis, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist at the Buffalo News in Western New York, began when he shared a cartoon that seemed to depict the Texas floods that killed 120 people and left over 170 missing…