The silver, the discussion and the joke

This graphic was publishe on The New York Times A1 and won a silver medal on SND contest. It has beeen a great controversy. OnNAO forum there is a thread with more than 60 replies about if it deserved the prize. Some say that it deserved the medal, by it simplicity, origiality, clarity, being ran on A1... Others say just the oppositte because they think it's not original, and, despite it's a good graphic it's not silver meda worth. There is a poll, and No is winning 22-4. The graphic was called "The little graphic that could" (win gold) on this video


But the best of all this arguing (usual after all the contests) is this "answer" from Moral Volcano