From Kenya's Sunday Standard: The East African Standard has come under government scrutiny after publishing political cartoons officials deemed inappropriate. Sunday Standard columnist Kodi Barth reports that the government's Goldenberg Commission of Inquiry has "demanded an explanation" for two political cartoons that mocked its work investigating an export compensation scandal . The Standard Group’s Managing Director, Tom Mshindi, appeared before the commission to apologize for making fun of its officials, but simultaneously defended cartoonists' right to satirize the government. Barth calls satiric journalism a "creative art": "The point is that within the creative art, there is no question of right or wrong. It is the power of debate within the constitutionally endorsed quest for journalistic space that counts. Better still if that debate is provoked in humour. Naturally, law and ethics may find fault with any publication, creative or otherwise, that is premised on a wrong and a lie. But satire, which highlights practices that frequently contradict virtue, is often the extreme limit of comedy in which the difference between things as they are and things as they ought to be is deliberately exaggerated."

Source: Sunday Standard