....by words and who utters those words.
Satire: a work or manner that blends a censorious attitude with humor and wit for improving human institutions or humanity. Satirists attempt through laughter not so much to tear down as to inspire a remodeling.
These visual commentaries, likely the most well-perused element of this editorial page, are meant to lambaste and lampoon the pompous and the powerful, skewer silliness and ridicule the ridiculous to make a point and make us think.
Quite often, the best of them also offend – and even infuriate – some readers. Satire and humour are, after all, highly subjective and what's hilarious to one may be offensive to another.
Does that mean that editorial cartoonists are free to colour outside all the lines of ethical journalism in the name of free expression, or does creating what's been called "journalism's strongest weapon" also entail some level of journalistic responsibility?
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Oh, dear. There's such a fuss about that New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama. Worse, the cover is a cartoon. It really is too bad that the Americans don't have human-rights commissions to swaddle cartoonaphobics. 
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