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    "data": {
        "id": 1370713,
        "msgid": "tasteless-caricature-1447893297",
        "date": "2003-07-04 00:00:00",
        "title": "Tasteless caricature",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Tasteless caricature The caricature printed in The Jakarta Post on June 24, depicting an angel preventing a soldier from committing human rights abuses in Aceh, does not reflect high intellectual taste. As if journalists are such angels and as if our armed forces are all thugs not worth keeping! These are the kinds of political caricatures the Western press like to make of the late president Sukarno or of any other Third World leader.",
        "content": "<p>Tasteless caricature<\/p>\n<p>The caricature printed in The Jakarta Post on June 24,<br>\ndepicting an angel preventing a soldier from committing human<br>\nrights abuses in Aceh, does not reflect high intellectual taste.<\/p>\n<p>As if journalists are such angels and as if our armed forces<br>\nare all thugs not worth keeping!<\/p>\n<p>These are the kinds of political caricatures the Western press<br>\nlike to make of the late president Sukarno or of any other Third<br>\nWorld leader.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder whether the cartoonist who draws such pictures<br>\nbelongs to \"the intelligentsia\" as mentioned by the writer of<br>\nMedia besieged by nationalist zealots on June 26 of the Post. The<br>\nwriter seems to be proud to belong to \"these only real<br>\nintellectuals\".<\/p>\n<p>This picture is degrading for both the Post and our own sense<br>\nof dignity.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the first time I have written about the change in<br>\nthe quality of the Post from an intelligent, well-balanced<br>\nnewspaper to the subjective gossip-laden newsletter it is today.<\/p>\n<p>This is a pity.<\/p>\n<p>SUMARSONO SASTROWARDOYO, Tangerang, Banten<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/tasteless-caricature-1447893297",
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