South Africa: Editors Must Edit Without Fear of Being Attacked

I once asked a South African editor why he ran a cartoon that he agreed was offensive. He said he had felt obliged, as he did not want to censor a well-known and much-respected cartoonist. His colleagues would have given him hell for infringing on the cartoonist's right to free speech, he said.

There is a fundamental and critical difference, I said, between editing and censorship.

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