Brown v. Monkey
A cartoon is misinterpreted and black organizations see an opportunity to make noise. Meanwhile, Rihanna is beat down by Chris Brown and commentary in the black community is, "What did she do to cause it?"
A cartoon is misinterpreted and black organizations see an opportunity to make noise. Meanwhile, Rihanna is beat down by Chris Brown and commentary in the black community is, "What did she do to cause it?"
Emil Wilbekin | Posted 03.26.2009 | Media
Plain and simple, Black folks don't like to be compared to animals -- especially nonhuman primate mammals.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.26.2009 | Home
Talk about racial correctness gone ape. How else can you describe the Washington Post's apology for an offensive cartoon that really didn't or at l...
Michael Wolff | Posted 03.26.2009 | Media
The fact that Col Allan is now being hung out to dry, and his obituary written, over a cartoon, is more mind blowing to Allan than to anyone else.
New York Times | Tim Arango and Richard Perez Pena | Posted 03.25.2009 | Media
Mr. Murdoch, as much old-fashioned press baron as 21st century multimedia mogul, faces a depressing reality: his lifelong fondness for newspapers has ...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.25.2009 | Media
Politico reports that the Washington Post is apologizing in advance for a column, before any offense can be taken: "The headline, illustration, and ...
AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 03.24.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — The head of the NAACP on Saturday urged readers to boycott the New York Post, calling a cartoon that the newspaper published an invit...
Rabbi Irwin Kula | Posted 03.23.2009 | Media
In calling Americans "cowards," Attorney General Holder undermines his very goal of helping us to become a more just society.
Scott Foval | Posted 03.23.2009 | Media
Hit his big white Right Winger pocketbook right through his pants. Dump all of NewsCorp's properties and teach these extremist bigots a lesson in a way they'll remember.
Bakari Kitwana | Posted 03.23.2009 | Media
This cartoon's arrival on newsstands is way out of step with the times. Regardless of its intention, it reinforces the notion that national conversations on race are long over due.
New York Post | Huffington Post | Posted 03.22.2009 | Media
This evening, the New York Post issued a half-apology for Wednesday's notorious stimulus/chimp cartoon which inspired outraged among many readers. Th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics
Coming off of a tone-deaf cartoon that compared the author of the stimulus bill with a crazed, shot-dead chimpanzee, it seemed likely that, for the ti...
BlackAndBrownNews | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics
Dear New York Post: Thank you for reminding me of who and what you really are. Please don't bother to offer up an empty apology for this latest offense.
Baratunde Thurston | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics
Although the release of another racist cartoon can be seen as repetitive, annoying and a distraction, I'm glad at the opportunity this moment gives us.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.22.2009 | Media
The mood inside the New York Post, it seems, is a mix of anger and bewilderment that the paper published a cartoon depicting the authors of the stimul...
Lee Camp | Posted 03.22.2009 | Media
Michael Shaw | Posted 03.21.2009 | Media
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics
In the page preceding a New York Post cartoon that depicts drafters of the stimulus legislation as a gun-downed chimpanzee, the paper published a larg...
Huffington Post | Nico Pitney | Posted 03.21.2009 | Media
The New York Post has issued a statement defending its stimulus/chimp cartoon and slamming Rev. Al Sharpton for protesting the piece. Here's the full...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.21.2009 | Media
A cartoon likening the author of the stimulus bill, perhaps President Barack Obama, with a rabid chimpanzee graced the pages of the New York Post on W...
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 03.14.2009 | Media
In Michael Wolff's book, he serves lots of candy and cat food as he tells the story of Murdoch's rise from scion of a smallish Australian newspaper empire to master of the universe in today's media world.
Courthouse News Service | Posted 03.14.2009 | Media
BROOKLYN (CN) - Joel Speyer, a CPA, says the New York Post cost him his job and defamed him in an Oct. 20, 2008 article accusing him of election fraud...
AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 03.08.2009 | Business
LOS ANGELES — News Corp., the global media giant controlled by Rupert Murdoch, said Thursday it lost $6.4 billion in its most recent quarter bec...
Neil McCarthy | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics
The ink is not yet dry on his Inaugural Address, and the sober but inspiring words breathed through the chill of a January afternoon and a collapsing ...
Jill Brooke | Posted 02.09.2009 | Living
For anyone going through a divorce, there has to be a blinking light that switches on in your head reminding you that you will not make the best decision because of the stresses you're under and to proceed with caution.
Jehmu Greene | Posted 03.26.2009 | Media