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Updated:
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Posted: Feb. 18, 2008 |
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NABJ Statement on New York Post Cartoon
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 18, 2009 - While the New York Post has long held a reputation for eye-catching headlines and startling exposes, it has now resorted to the lowest common denominator of taste and class.
How could The Post let this cartoon pass as satire? To compare the nation’s first African American Commander in Chief to a dead chimpanzee is nothing short of racist drivel.
The publisher and editors of The New York Post owe its readers an explanation.
I question the judgment of the editorial editors to move this to print as well as the diversity of its staff that would let them think this passes as comedy.
While I believe editorials questioning yesterday’s signing of the record economic stimulus should exist, there is a line that should never be crossed. Top among them is the assassination of a U.S. President.
Barbara Ciara, president
An advocacy group established in 1975 in Washington, D.C., NABJ is the largest organization of journalists of color in the nation, with more than 4,100 members, and provides educational, career development and support to black journalists worldwide.
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