Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Seal Hunt Cartoon Controversy
:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/20/2007 06:22:00 AM The Globe and Mail's Anthony Jenkins is in hot water over an editorial page cartoon published this past weekend. The cartoon, depicting a group of space explorers determined to hunt new lifeforms on Mars, has stirred controversy because of its anti-sealhunt stance and because Jenkins mixes up the Innu (who are not part of the sealhunt) and the Inuit (who are). In a CBC report, Jenkins, who was nominated for a National Newspaper Award in 1996, is paraphrased as saying that the pro-sealhunt lobby hasn't done enough to educate the public about who they are; hence his confusion. The cartoon itself is pretty innocuous-seeming and graphically understated, if not exactly bland.
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