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06.10.2009 1:47 pm

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. tries again to satisfy cartoon’s critics

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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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…

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06.09.2009 11:46 am

National Review’s caricature of Sotomayor: Intentionally racist?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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02.19.2009 10:59 am

Chimp drawing wasn’t racist but failed, says head of cartoonists group

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, Ted Rall, says he doesn’t think Wednesday’s New York Post chimpanzee cartoon was racist.  But he sure doesn’t think it was very good.

Rall said the cartoon was a “misfire” and a too-common…

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09.12.2008 11:28 am

Did Matson’s cartoon inspire Obama?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A CENTRIST sent us a link to a NewsBuster posting by Ken Shepherd that wonders if Barack Obama’s Sept. 9 “lipstick on a pig” comment was inspired by R.J. Matson’s Sept. 5 editorial cartoon.

Matson’s cartoon — which appeared on the Opinion page…

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