N.Y. Post cartoon
Four months after being told that its qualified apology was too little too late, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. is taking further action to satisfy those who were upset by a cartoon in the New York Post picturing a slain…
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…
The pinata cartoon
Once again an editorial cartoon involving President Barack Obama is being criticized as racist. But this time, Obama’s not the focus of those offended.
The Oklahoma Women’s Coalition — among others — is upset over a drawing of Sonia Sotomayor…
Rupert Murdoch has apologized to readers of the New York Post for the chimpanzee political cartoon that many called racist. His apology, which appears below, ran yesterday in the New York Post.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch carried a two-sentence brief this morning noting…
“Editorial cartoonists are bending over backwards a lot these days, as they try to satirize the nation’s first black president,” Associated Press National Writer Jesse Washington wrote in a weekend story.
Washington noted the tightrope editorial cartoonists are having to walk in…
(This item is also posted on our “A Conversation about Race” blog, since the controversy mainly deals with race but also raises ethical questions related to editorial cartooning.)
The New York Post has apologized for the chimpanzee cartoon. If you consider what…
You might be interested in reading a post on our “A Conversation about Race” blog about Michael Cavna’s criticism of political cartoonists for exaggerating President Barack Obama’s lips. Cavna wrties “Comic Riffs,” a blog about comics and cartooning on washingtonpost.com.
His post…
