Terrorism doesn't scare political cartoonists nearly as much as editors — and the corporate bean-counters who tell them what to do.
The Charlie Hebdo massacre couldn't have happened here in the United States. But it's not because American newspapers have better security.
Gunmen could never kill four political cartoonists in an American newspaper office because no paper in the U.S. employs two, much less four, staff political cartoonists — the number who died Wednesday in Paris. There is no equivalent of Charlie Hebdo, which puts political cartoons front and center, in the U.S.
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