Saturday, 21 July 2007
Yah know, if you start something, you really should follow through
Must have seemed like a good idea at the time: Ask a bunch of editorial cartoonists to submit cartoons that had been spiked by their editors. Put 'em all in a book. Make a point about editorial cowardice. Take the high moral ground. But...
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HT Tim Blair, who invokes the New York Times and the Sydney Morning Herald.
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When you publish a book called Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression, the whole point would seem to be that you're speaking up for unfettered satire. Apparently not. The publishers of Killed Cartoons ... killed one of the cartoons!Any guesses about the subject of the cartoon that got killed?
-- Joe Bob Briggs
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HT Tim Blair, who invokes the New York Times and the Sydney Morning Herald.
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