August 11, 2009
Post Passes On McNamara Cartoon
Kudos to Michael Cavna at
Comic Riffs for
reporting that the mothership
Washington Post has decided,
again, to avoid any hint of turmoil and complaint that might come from reprinting a strip, a judgment made according to a nose so sensitive it should be employed to dig up the controversy equivalent to truffles. In other words, the
Post made another of their depressing decisions not to let a veteran cartoonist have their platform when that cartoonist seems to be simply following their muse, all because someone out there might get upset by it. Cavna makes a strong argument that a cartoon with more clarity might have been more amenable to the
Post editors, but I'm having a hard time seeing how the broad version could be misinterpreted by an angry reader in a way that a more specific version would keep them from hating it. You can see the full cartoon
here.
posted 8:25 am PST |
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