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This cartoon appeared in the New York Post
The company will form a "diversity community council" in New York City that will meet with senior company executives twice a year, NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous said Wednesday. It also will include a statement of commitment to diversity in its annual report.
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch published an apology in the Post soon after the cartoon appeared in February, but pressure for further action continued.
Jealous called the cartoon an "invitation for assassination" and urged a boycott of the paper and the firing of the editor and cartoonist. The Rev. Al Sharpton asked the Federal Communications Commission to review policies allowing News Corp. to control multiple media outlets in the same market.
Representatives from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Sharpton's National Action Network, the National Urban League and 100 Black Men of America met with News Corp. executives on May 19.
Jack Horner, a spokesman for News Corp., said similar diversity advisory boards already exist in Chicago and Los Angeles.
"This is an expansion of what we've had elsewhere," Horner said. "The key is we're always responding and learning from our communities."
The cartoon, by longtime Post provocateur Sean Delonas, appeared as Obama's stimulus bill moved through Congress and after a violent pet chimp was killed by police in Connecticut. It depicted the body of a bullet-riddled chimp and two police officers. The caption read: "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill."
There was an immediate outcry from average citizens and community organizations.
At first, the Post issued a qualified apology, saying the cartoon was meant to mock only the stimulus bill. But it added that some media and public figures who have long-standing differences with the tabloid — implicating Sharpton, who had recently been the subject of critical coverage — saw the cartoon "as an opportunity for payback."
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Jun 10, 2009 at 04:28 PM Milhouse Says:
What mishugas, and bowing to extortion.
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Jun 10, 2009 at 05:47 PM Avrohom Abba Says:
What is the big deal about this cartoon? What is in it that gets so many blacks to meet with the News Corp? Why is the Reverend against this cartoon? Does the Reverend Sharpton have a position on the constant hateful cartoons against Jews in the Islamic countries? Probably not, because he isnot agaisnt hate, he is just against hate when its aimed at blacks. Right? So, what is there in this cartoon that shows hate against blacks??
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Jun 10, 2009 at 05:28 PM Anonymous Says:
There was cartoons that would depict condoleeza rice in the same fashion in the NY Times, but where was sharpton and the rest of the back community to protest the outrage? When it comes to black conservatives or black republicans there is no outrage, but when it depicts a black liberal, suddenly there is outrage.
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Jun 10, 2009 at 06:42 PM Charles Hall Says:
What about the regular use of naked or nearly naked women as front page models for this newspaper, which is not suitable for a frum home?
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Jun 10, 2009 at 09:26 PM R.I.P. Freedom Says:
Bowed to the pressure of the commies.
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Jun 11, 2009 at 12:00 AM Aron Says:
Just because Al Sharpton and his ilk take a stand doesn't mean we have to automatically take the opposite position.
Face it. This cartoon was senseless and tasteless, which is 2 reasons why the Post ran it. They need publicity to survive.
Ironically, my consevative views are more in line with the Post, yet I can't stand reading it. I feel the need to shower every time I read that 3rd grade level rag. The Daily News is only marginally better (I peg them at a 7th grade level)..
The Wall Street Journal (if only they had a sports section!) and, dare I admit, The New York Times are far more informative.
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Jun 11, 2009 at 07:50 AM Anonymous Says:
as savage says diversity equals perversity
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Jun 11, 2009 at 11:07 AM You are what you think you are Says:
The only people who make the connection between a chimpanzee and a black person are those who have racist and self-denigrating views of themselves or others. Think about it.