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December 14, 2005


Baaa! Ghana Politician Sues Newspaper

Here's one for the "You win some/you lose some" file. Fresh off yesterday's encouraging news that a Turkish court of appeals has rescinded a fine agains a cartoonist who depicted Prime Minister Reycip Erdogan as a horse comes word that a member of parliament in Ghana has sued a newspaper for what he believes is a depiction of himself as a sheep.

Although the underlying absurdity in the above sentence is fairly apparent to all who read it, there is an important real-world issue in play here, namely politicians using their country's courts -- courts in which they may have an unfair advantage -- to control the message of cartoonists using satire to editorialize as is their right.
 
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