Who needs integrity?
…when you can roll-over and play dead every time somebody disagrees with you.
Apparently that’s the new mantra over at the local fishwrap. Well, calling it new might be a bit of a stretch – let’s just call it continuing. It doesn’t seem to matter who the Publisher or Editor are, because when the wind blows against those in their elevation-challenged ivory tower over at 18th and Superior, they simply roll-over and play dead.
The recent brouhaha over a Jeff Darcy editorial cartoon (which I have linked to here but will not publish so as not to infringe on their copyright and so I don’t offend anyone) that rightly pointed out lethargic mayor Frank Jackson’s sudden desire to insert himself into just another (now over 100) murder investigations has got new Editor Susan Goldberg begging for forgiveness. Instead of standing up for the paper’s editorial page and the use of satirically-charged artwork to hammer home a point, Goldberg chose to say she and the paper were sorry for the offensive and insensitive nature of the cartoon.
What was so offensive? The cartoon depicted an African American child (which in keeping with the facts of the case the cartoon was referring was correct), an inner-city neighborhood street corner as a backdrop (which again as related to the case in point was correct), in that streetcorner scene was: a billboard showing Jackson with a derivative of the Cleveland + logo and a paraphrase of an oft heard Jackson statement about the citizens of the city; two streetcorner thugs (one black and the other BTW white); and a wanted poster for the young girl’s killer. Additionally the child was adorned in a tee shirt with a message that said, “Don’t shoot, I’m a friend of a friend of Mayor Jackson’s daughter” (again, pretty much in keeping with the facts associated with the case and the Mayor’s response).
So I ask you again, what was so offensive. Except for maybe the price of milk shown on the corner store’s door was WAY lower than what it probably costs in that store today.
Come to think of it I know what was so offensive,
what you tend to forget sometimes is that you view things through a prism of sanity. i’ve tried to learn to view things as they do – thru an insane, inane and warped prism. using that technique, i was able to predict instantly that that one would be a hot potato and create a racially charged media firestorm. i figured the p.d. would wuss out. wasn’t that girl’s father the one that tried to hide the gun for big willy before he discovered that it was his own daughter that had gotten shot? this was initially reported but quickly hushed up. this is a sad and unfortunate situation all the way around.
[...] When The Plain Dealer’s editor, Susan Goldberg apologized, right or wrong, for a cartoon by Jeff Darcy that centered on the shotgun death of a 12 year old in Cleveland, one comment she made referenced the lack of diversity in the Plain Dealer’s newsroom. The child was African-American. [...]
it wasn’t a shotgun. it was a handgun that the girls father tried to initially hide for big willy. does this behavior constitute being a part of the problem in your liberal mind?