This would be more persuasive if I could remember who said it, but some politician in the era of the yellow press complained to (Hearst?) that he didn’t care what was in the editorials and articles (because nobody read them), but people actually looked at the political cartoons in the paper.
Just outside the 5 minute window, it was Boss Tweed:
See post #19 – Tweed was referring specifically to Thomas Nast’s anti-Tweed cartoons in Harper’s. Nast waged a total crusade to expose Tweed’s (and Tammany Hall’s) corruption, and bring him down through satire. In the end, it worked; Tweed died in jail.