The phones on the city desk have never rung like that before

[RamboLiberal]

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A newsroom employee at The Post, who spoke on condition of anonymity because employees were not permitted to comment on the matter, said its newsroom received many calls of complaints on Wednesday morning after the publication of the cartoon. “Every line was lit up for several hours,” the employee said. “The phones on the city desk have never rung like that before.” Many Post staff members were dismayed by the cartoon, the employee added.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/chimp-stimulus-cartoon-raises-racism-concerns/?hp

[Spazito]

1. I am glad to hear this and also to read this....

"Many Post staff members were dismayed by the cartoon, the employee added."

[Cha]

2. That heartens,

me too.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Cartoons are not always protected by free speech, imho

If they incite violence, then they should be taken down. I felt the same way about the Danish cartoons of the Prophet, but many here couldn't understand why they should be condemned, even when violence resulted.

[Cha]

4. The Post doesn't want to apologize for it then

we need to make sure it rethinks that.


"City Councilman Leroy G. Comrie Jr., a Queens Democrat, called for a boycott of the newspaper. “To run such a violent, racist cartoon is an insult to all New Yorkers,” he said in a statement. “This was an unfortunate incident in which a human being was seriously injured- not an opportunity to sling dangerous rhetoric. It is my belief that The New York Post owes an immediate apology to this city for demonstrating such terrible judgment and insensitivity.”

“ Jan Nederveen Pieterse, a professor of global studies and sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of “White on Black: Images of Africa and Blacks in Western Popular Culture” (Yale University Press, 1995), said, “I agree the cartoon is racist, without a doubt.”

Professor Pieterse, who is Dutch, said that portrayal of non-Westerners as primates became well-established in both the United States and Europe in the late 19th century, and has affected not only blacks, but also the Irish and Chinese, for example.

“It’s absolutely outrageous,” he said of the cartoon, “and I think people are concerned because it sets a nasty, mean, very aggressive tone. You can’t get any lower.”

[roseBudd]

5. anyone know the number?

[janet118]

6. 1-800-552-7678 n/t

[roseBudd]

13. mailbox is full

[nc4bo]

7. I hope the phones are screaming tomorrow too and their voice mail

is overflowing with angry messages.

btw, I had to leave a message, all lines busy.

[Paladin]

8. Good. They Deserve All The Grief They Get For This.

I intend on giving them a call, myself.....

[tblue37]

11. Me, too, now that I have that convenient number! nt

[MadMaddie]

9. Don't forget the cartoons during the rise of Nazi Germany

they fed the hatred and dischord of the Germans against Jews, Gays, Gypsies and other groups.

I hope the public keeps up the pressure.

[Highway61]

10. Good!

We need to set a new bar. Unacceptable. Out with the old and in with the new.

[rvablue]

12. All I have to say is Reverend Al's march tomorrow is going to be something to behold

and I wonder if the MSM will cover it......either way, the NYC media will; that is what will hit the NY Post in the pocket book, anyway.