The controversial cover of the New Yorker magazine
This week’s cover of the New Yorker, depicting Barak Obama dressed in traditional Muslim garb with his wife Michelle as a gun-toting revolutionary, has created quite a controversy and raised questions about the nature of satire. We get reaction from editorial cartoonists TONY AUTH and KHALIL BENDIB and ROBERT THOMPSON, Syracuse University professor of popular culture.
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