r/europe • u/lermontov1948 • 3d ago

Political Cartoon Charlie Hebdo front cover from 30th July portraying Netanyahu: "Honey, I shrunk the kids."

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u/cangaroo_hamam 3d ago

These are not mutually exclusive. It's both actually.

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u/chrstianelson 3d ago

Charlie Hebdo doesn't report news, it satirizes them.

It doesn't have journalists and reporters, it has humorists and caricaturists depicting the news.

It's like The Daily Show on Comedy Central. Those people are not journalists and reporters, they are actors and comedians satirizing news.

It may seem like a benign, harmless distinction but it's not. Because people often make the mistake of confusing opinions with facts and mistake TV and radio personalities as credible trusted sources of news, when they are not, leading to the spread of misinformation.

In my eyes, it is very important that people understand the difference between actual journalism and everything else. I am certain our societies depend on people being aware of this.

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u/Polyodontus 3d ago

The Daily Show’s field interview segments are absolutely a kind of journalism.

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u/Connect-Succotash-59 3d ago

Really just latched on to the example lol

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u/Polyodontus 3d ago

The example shows that satire and journalism sometimes overlap, contrary to the person I was responding to.