02.23.2009 1:58 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Below is a guest blog from Jonathan Smith, acting chair and assistant professor in the Department of American Studies at St. Louis University.
Smith’s column is in response to a Feb. 19 blog item by Kurt Greenbaum — “Living up to…

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02.20.2009 10:13 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The New York Post has apologized for the chimpanzee cartoon. If you consider what follows to be an apology. Under an online headline “That Cartoon,” the Post offers:
Wednesday’s Page Six cartoon - caricaturing Monday’s police shooting of a chimpanzee in Connecticut…

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02.18.2009 12:23 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A political cartoon in today’s New York Post is being called racist. At the least, it would seem to qualify as tasteless.
St. Petersburg Times media critic Erics Deggans writes in his blog:
Is this cartoon racist?
Riddle me this: the New York…

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