2015/01/07/Political Cartooning is Almost Worth Dying For

• when: 2015/01/07 (2015/01/07)
• author: Ted Rall
• topics: Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting freedom of speech political cartooning journalism
• link: http://rall.com/2015/01/07/special-to-the-los-angeles-times-on-the-murder-of-12-martyrs-for-free-speech-in-paris
• title: Special to The Los Angeles Times: Political Cartooning is Almost Worth Dying For
• summary: «Political cartooning in the United States gets no respect. I was thinking about that this morning when I heard NPR's Eleanor Beardsley call Charlie Hebdo "gross" and "in poor taste." (I should certainly hope so! If it’s in good taste, it ain't funny.) It was a hell of a thing to say, not to mention not true, while the bodies of dead journalists were still warm. But these were cartoonists, and therefore unworthy of the same level of decorum that a similar event at, say, The Onion – which mainly runs words – would merit.»