www.nydailynews.com/news/national/s...tin-cartoon-article-1.1052742#commentpostform Cartoon used deragatory term, spelled Trayvon™ incorrectly A college newspaper in Texas is apologizing for a controversial editorial cartoon about the killing of Trayvon Martin™, and the cartoonist who made it is taking the fall. The drawing, a commentary on the media frenzy surrounding the Florida teen’s shooting death, sparked protests on Wednesday at the University of Texas at Austin, where the student newspaper is published. Printed Tuesday, the cartoon referred to Martin as a “colored boy.” It also spelled his first name incorrectly. “A lot of people don't realize how insensitive this comic is, and this affects the recruitment of African-American students to the university by making the campus look bad,” Jasmine Kyles, a journalism major at the school and member of the Black Student Alliance, told the newspaper. “When they see things like this, they think the university is racist even though that hasn’t been everyone’s experience here,” she said. Stephanie Eisner, the cartoonist, issued an apology, and according to a statement Thursday, “no longer works for The Daily Texan.” However, none of the members of the editorial board, which approved the cartoon, has stepped down. Instead they have vowed to do better next time. (Go team!) “The decision to run the cartoon showed a failure in judgment on the part of the editorial board,” they said in a statement. C.W. Anderson, an assistant professor in the Department of Media Culture at CUNY, told the Daily News the reaction to the cartoon was a good lesson for the student journalists, especially in the age of the internet. “It’s a lesson for student journalists to realize don’t just exist on the University of Texas, they exist everywhere,” he said. The newspaper, like many college papers in the country, has a faculty adviser, but it is unclear if he signed off on the cartoon. TRAYVON MARTIN CARTOON SPARKS OUTRAGE The newspaper’s board also promised to improve the newspaper’s coverage of race and pledged to hold an open forum in the coming weeks to discuss race and diversity in the publication and on the campus. “We understand these are only small steps in the much larger transformation we must undergo,” the board said. “We sincerely apologize for publishing the offensive cartoon and for the harm that decision caused.” Straight outa' Orwell, daddy-o...
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LOL. 'We try for 100% racist experience, but we have some tough competitors out there.' It's not 'straight out of Orwell' -- Whites have have a FEAR of saying what they think, because they know the consequences of speaking their mind. They don't need telescreens to be cowed.
I see that the clipped part of the picture so that you can't quite make out "yellow journalism". I guess that hit a bit too close to home.
Likely for the very same reason the cartoonist didn't say 'Jewish Media' on the background. There was a bit of editing in both the original, and in the cropped version. Just enough to make the TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH into a LIE LIE LIE. 'Do you promise to tell the Truth, the Half-Truth, and Nothing but Convenient Truth?'