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News Medical aids needled by claim they have failed members during pandemic . The vitriol and the hatred that has been unfurled as a result — I mean, the cartoonist, we understand, has security now outside his house.
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Breaking headlines and latest news from the UK and the World. Even gung-ho Victoria is now shying from stage four restrictions, The Herald Digital is available to you at home or at work, and is the same edition as the printed copy available at the newsstand. He’s had death threats.“What I’m interested to know is have we heard from Serena Williams herself as to whether she’s offended by it?”Knight, who posted his original cartoon to social media and suffered a horrible backlash which included death threats aimed at him and his family, appears to have deactivated his Twitter account.“Knight draws facial features reflecting the dehumanising Jim Crow caricatures so common in the 19th and 20th centuries,” commentator Michael Cavna wrote.IF you thought the Herald Sun was going to back down, guess again.The Melbourne newspaper behind a controversial cartoon which depicted Serena Williams’ tantrum during the US Open women’s final has responded to critics with an extraordinary front page.Knight’s widely condemned cartoon depicting “the world’s greatest tennis player spit the dummy” appears in the foreground with the caption: “Vetoed: Large hair and lips, too angry.”Michael Miller, executive chairman of News Corp Australasia, which publishes the Herald Sun, defended his cartoonist on Tuesday.“Criticism of Mark Knight’s Serena Williams cartoon shows the world has gone too PC & misunderstands the role of news media cartoons and satire,” he said. August 1, 2018 1:00am
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