MUCH has been said and much more written about the murderous attack on
the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last week. The bloody
slaughter was far from isolated, there have been over 70 journalists
killed in the line of duty in the last year, the majority of those in

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loved and felt very strongly about.

The magazine's particular style, at times sexually crude satire, is not
my thing. It wouldn't be something I'd buy, read or find funny.

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to our profession. Cartoons as form of expression can on the face of it
sound childlike and frivolous. However, you've only to look at the back
catalogue of work of our own Ian Knox to see the power political satire
can wield as a form of expression.