Daily Cartoonist: Newspaper Apologizes For Chris Britt Cartoon

Alan Gardner at Daily Cartoonist caught that a newspaper apologized for a cartoon after a complaint and demand for apology by a local policeman's union.

The idea that editorial cartoons are provocative actions for which one apologizes as opposed to free speech with which one might disagree seems asinine to me, doubly so after this weekend. I'm frustrated by what I see as these kind of pride-saving diversionary tactics in our national struggle to deal with very real and scary and humbling and delicate issues, and I'm sad that a newspaper wouldn't take a stronger stand just on general principle as well in their role as a community standard-bearer.

I hope that no other paper apologizes for a cartoon that is anything less than an obvious and near-demented personal attack. This wasn't that. If you see yourself apologizing for a cartoon's primary message, it's time to work with your editorial cartoonist to run a more suitable-to-you cartoon.
 
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