Last week a whole new crop of OTB citizen journalists / commentators weighed in the New Yorker cover featuring the Obamas as a terrorist First Couple. Most all of the commentary was negative, a citizen critique of the artist's efforts at satire. At least one writer suggests a "buycott." Dive in: the water's chilly!
Dwight Dunkley
The Joke Is 'On' Not 'In' The New Yorker
Like a tabloid talk show, the New Yorker cover was calculated to draw looks and sell advertising. But the so-called satire missed its mark.
Leonce Gaiter
The New Yorker's Fear of a Black President
It's hard to believe that the editorial staff of the New Yorker did not see this straight depiction of Obama and his wife as militant/Muslim terrorists for the Red State red meat that it is. Parroting is not parody.
Earnest Harris
The Cultural Politics Of The New Yorker Cover
Racism and bigotry are not intellectually free-floating topics for Blacks. It is easy to laugh and chuckle at such cerebral satire when your life is not impacted by the reality behind it.
Felicia Harvey
Baby Mamas, Fist Jabs, Magazine Covers: Media Gone Wild
Diversity is not a passing fad. References to all of the most negative and deplorable racial and ethnic stereotypes have got to stop. Satire or no, they play on fear and advance it.
Stephen C. Rose
MyBO And The New Yorker Cover
On the Obama Blog, the war against the New Yorker is in full force, people who have no subscriptions sending in unsubscribe notices. It's a loss for the New Yorker and a near-term loss for Obama.
Elizabeth Ross
Forget the Petitions -- Show Me the Money
How about a good old fashioned grassroots boycott to get our point across to the New Yorker?
Kristine M. Smith
The New Yorker Satire Blues
The unlikely saving grace would be if the controversial depiction of "all we fear about Obama as a relative unknown on the political scene" gets the fear-based voters to read the magazine's articles about Obama.
Garrett Socol
To Cancel or Not To Cancel My New Yorker Subscription
Personally, I do not care if my president is Christian, Jewish, Lutheran, follows Confucianism, Hindu, Taoist, Presbyterian, Chinese Universalist or an Atheist......and neither should you.
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