Dateline Australia.
Controversial cartoonist Michael Leunig has been axed from his prime spot in The Age newspaper after a cartoon evaluating resistance in opposition to obligatory Covid vaccines to the battle for democracy in Tiananmen Sq. was censored.
‘Apparently, I’m out of contact with the readership,’ Leunig advised The Australian’s Media Diary of his sacking from offering the editorial web page cartoon in Monday editions of the Melbourne-based publication.
Leunig’s cartoon, which by no means made the paper, featured certainly one of his usually fragile, big-nosed figures dealing with the silhouette of a tank with a syringe rather than the gun turret.
[Michael] advised The Australian that The Age’s editor Homosexual Alcorn known as him quickly after she banned the cartoon to “break the information gently” that he was not wished on the editorial web page.
He mentioned he was advised he was “out of contact with the readership”.
“Homosexual feels the sort of cartoon will not be in keeping with public sentiment, and The Age’s readership, who it does appear are largely in favour of the Andrews Covid narrative,” he mentioned. “However my job is to problem the established order, and that has all the time been the job of the cartoonist.”
He defended his cartoon, saying the Tiananmen Sq. picture is usually utilized in cartoons around the globe as a “Charlie Chaplin-like metaphor for overwhelming power assembly the harmless powerless particular person” — which he felt was truthful to precise.
