The New Anti-Semitism, cartoon division

One thing that all journalists know is how to hurt people.

The good ones know how to avoid it, and do, refraining from racism, steering clear of character assassinations of private individuals.

The bad ones hurt people inadvertently, through breaches of professional ethics.

The worst, a group which can include some of the best known, do it on purpose. And of these, no one can hurt so many people all at once, as a cartoonist.

In sheer destructive potential, few elements of journalism can hold a candle to the hateful cartoon. The fact that the virulently anti-Semitic caricatures of the Nazi Der Sturmer weekly still circulate on neo-Nazi Websites more than 70 years after they were drawn, testifies to their power and longevity.

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Cartoonists, BTW, are not journalists, or anything of the sort. There is lots of stuff in newspapers that is not journalism, and cartoons, political or not, definitely are not. One could well argue that a good journalists job is to "hurt politicians".

Seriously, this fellow seems to conflate propagandists with journalists. Not that that is not an easy thing to get confused about these days.