The people taking part in Slate.com’s Newspapers vs. Web experiment are saying that the Henry Gates arrest is being handled better online than in newspapers. (The experiment, the subject of an Editors’ Desk post yesterday, basically is to see if it’s…
A comment by Clyde on a Conversation about Race blog posting — Did the National Review want Sotomayor cover to be called racist? — includes an interesting question. (I’m posing his question here because it extends beyond race, and certainly calls…
Like the pinata editorial cartoon mentioned yesterday, this caricature of Judge Sonia Sotomayor on the cover of the National Review is also generating complaints that it’s racist. And some are saying National Review editor Rich Lowry knew that and wanted it be…
Drawing a parallel to the question of identifying crime suspects by race — an issue recently debated on our “A Conversation about Race” blog — the Miami Herald’s ombudsman examines whether it is right to reveal a suspect’s immigration status in…
A political cartoon of a slain chimp in today’s New York Post has stirred complaints of racism. Check out the controversy in our “A Conversation about Race” blog item.
The Associated Press has moved this story about the uproar:
A New York Post…
A post today on our new blog — A Conversation about Race — considers that question. Columnist Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe has answered a column by the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz. Jacoby says it doesn’t matter. Kurtz earlier this…
