Special Report Transcript Episode 22, Section 5, Time 36:39

I think cartooning is powerful in the sense that many people see the stuff every day. It’s very immediate and it does illicit reaction. When I say have I had reaction, sometimes that reaction comes through letters and other things where I don’t actually meet the people. Yes, it has a lot of power to get to people and to start debates and things. // Do you like some journalists believe you have to be neutral or objective? // Not at all. When I was living in America that was a tremendously prevalent idea, objective journalism. Many of the people on the left - because American mainstream media, it’s very much, it’s sort of centre right - had a big problem with that. Saying that you can seek balance perhaps, but you can never seek objectivity. The moment you make any kind of assessment of something you’re not objective anymore. I don’t really even seek balance. If I feel I want to go for a jugular, I go for the jugular, that’s the way I do it. // Is what you do closer to journalism than to art? // I would say so, because there are cartoonists who can’t draw well at well, but they’ve got a really good head. And I mean the head is far more important than the hand in this thing, in cartooning. I try and put a lot into the drawing as well. There are other people who draw far more easily than I draw. I mean there are people who draw with tremendous facility. I try and do a lot of working into the drawing, a lot of little bits and pieces and detail and things. I get a lot of fun out of drawing the stuff. But the head is where it’s at.

Notes: Jonathan Shapiro

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