HonestReporting Communique
18 August 2003

"BIASED CARTOONIST SACKED"

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Dear HonestReporting Subscriber,

For years, local media monitors have submitted complaints to the New Zealand Herald regarding their virulently anti-Israeli editorial cartoonist, Malcolm Evans. Just two months ago, for example, Evans penned this cartoon, which compared Israel to Apartheid South Africa:
http://www.honestreporting.com/graphics/evansapart.j...

In addition, Evans has continually made outrageous comparisons between Nazi Germany and contemporary Israel, such as this cartoon of a concentration camp victim pointing and crying "Shame!" to an Israeli tankist:
http://www.honestreporting.com/graphics/evansarm.jpg

In apparent recognition of Evans' anti-Israel bias, the editor-in-chief of the Herald recently requested that Evans avoid the topic of Israel in his future cartoons. Evans refused, and the Herald then fired the cartoonist, who had been an employee of the paper for seven years.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2627436a11,00.ht...

HonestReporting commends New Zealand media monitors (many of whom are HonestReporting subscribers) for calling Malcolm Evans' cartoons into question and demanding editorial fairness from the Herald – the largest newspaper in the region.

Thank you for your ongoing involvement in the battle against media bias.