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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. continues to back down from a NY Post editorial cartoon in February that featured a dead chimpanzee. The company announced Wednesday that it will form a "diversity community council" to meet with senior New York executives as part of a response to public outcry from civil rights organizations over the chimp cartoon. News Corp. executives met with those organizations last month to hammer out a deal, which spokesman Jack Horner said is similar to policies in place at News Corp. offices elsewhere. "The key is we're always responding and learning from our communities," he told the AP. Serving on the diversity council are expected to be representatives from the NAACP, the National Urban League, the Hispanic Federation, and other New York-area organizations.
News Corp. To Form Diversity Council After Cartoon Controversy
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If they really want to appeal to public outcry, they should just shut down The NY Post. It's tabloid journalism at its worst.
This cartoon was stupid, but it was not racist. The Post is stupid for kowtowing to the idiots who make a living exploiting those who don't understand the difference.
Equating a rabid chimpanzee with the President is pretty damn racist. And on top of that, depicting him riddled with bullets makes it even worse. People who refuse to acknowledge that this was the point of the cartoon are the idiots, and they are dangerous ones at that. It's just more of the hate mongering, consistent with that of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly, that leads to people getting shot by wingnuts with illegally obtained weapons.
wait. If they have to run this through a sensitive diversity board. This means the post will just have blank front pages and no editorials. Bada-bing.