Irish Times cartoonist Martyn Turner’s tribute to ‘Charlie Hebdo’ in today’s paper.
Mr Turner writes:
“When I am in France,Charlie Hebdo is my weekly of choice. It is far livelier thanCanard Enchaîné and far less intimidating than Sine Hebdo (itself a breakaway from Charlie Hebdo). In France they take satire very seriously. They are devoutly anti-clerical in the broadest sense and have been for a century or so. The fight for the freedom of the press was fought against the church and against the political classes in France long ago and was won.”
“Charlie and the other magazines see it as their mission in life to exploit the boundaries of taste and freedom as much as they can. So when Islam came into this culture it was treated by the satirists in exactly the same way they had been treating other religions for decades. When you add to this a large dollop of the French cartoonists’ love of the scatological and gynaecological, you get something that can probably only be sold in the presse tabacs of France. Charlie Hebdo would not survive too long in a Dublin newsagent without being hauled before the beak for blasphemy, indecency and anything else they could think of.”
Martyn Turner: ‘Charlie Hebdo fought extremism with laughter, satire and free speech (IrishTimes)
Previously: Act Of Contrition
Meanwhile, newsrooms across the country observed a minute’s silence this morning…
A rare moment of silence in Marconi House #JeSuisCharlie pic.twitter.com/NsZ7jJyvOI
— Today FM News (@TodayFMNews) January 8, 2015
Marconi House on Digges Lane, Dublin 2 is home to Communicorp’s Newstalk, Today FM and TXFM.
In the Independent News and Media offices in Dublin…
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In the Irish Times office…
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And at Annie West’s home in Sligo…
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Martyn Turner writes a great piece warning against knee jerk reaction and BS use the sentance that suggests Ireland is a bit shit. Talk about missing the point.
rotide, this knee jerk reaction you type about may have been relevant, not now. There is something dangerous within Islam, and the knee jerk reaction that we are constantly warned about has NEVER occured, but! the slaughter continues. So there . . .
Why is someone else posting under my nom de plume? I finally feel some sympathy for ABM.
Anyway, Turner seems to be talking more about an attitude amongst the public towards ‘offensive’ material than specific pieces of law. It was an aside within the general thrust of the piece.
Still, nice that I.T. grew some stones and printed the pic
I hate Martin Turner. Driest, most boring mind in the Irish Times.
but what do you think of Martyn?
Driest, most boring mind in the Irish Times.
Willing to bet he doesn’t stay up most nights worrying about what you think
Thank God for Martyn Turner, the only reason to buy the Irish Times.
They should re-print the cartoons
martyn turner izza freakin coward. Happy to knock Catholicism, afraid to knock Islam.
Islam! the most stupid religion of them all.
You’re pushing it a bit now.
Fraud. He’d never use that term.
…just last year the Irish Times rolled over (as usual) and removed a Martyn Turner cartoon because Bishop Martin claimed that priests were offended….this belt of the crozier was no doubt reinforced by an implied threat that the blasphemy law would be invoked.
Awful cartoonist. Poor drawing skills, too much text, tries far to hard to be “controversial”.
Martyn if you need mice with speech bubbles to explain things then it’s a sign your cartoon is shyte
NUJ my arse, same as the french Journalists, Where were they when Gemma O’Doherty was fired? All out on the streets? nah didn’t think so!