Offence was intended
I’M SORRY my old pal and colleague Davie Cruickshanks finds Steve Bell’s Sly Bailey cartoon so offensive. Perhaps if he were still working at the Daily Record/Sunday Mail and facing the 70 job cuts Bailey and her acolytes are trying to impose on the hugely profitable titles, he might take a different view.
Cartoonists have a great tradition of causing offence to the self-styled good and the great. Long may that continue.
I sincerely hope Bailey was offended by the cartoon. It’s one of the few ways we have of hitting back at a woman who once declared: “Judge me by the share price”. Just three years ago, Trinity Mirror shares were around £6. Now they are around 60p.
As for Mr Grist who objected to a four-letter word in the cartoon, please don’t go near any newsroom, press, radio or TV, in the UK — I’d fear for your health, sir.
Name withheld by agreement
REGARDING the controversy around the volume and intensity of swearing in Steve Bell’s cartoons for the Journalist, can we have more swearing from Steve Bell, not less? He does it so well.
Matt Salusbury
London Freelance Branch