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November 22, 2004


(Slightly) More on Ted Rall and WashingtonPost.com

imageI mentioned in passing late last week that the editorial cartoonist and essayist Ted Rall had been dropped by the Washington Post's on-line service, and that he gave Dave Astor at Editor & Publisher a statement that he believed this was for a very specific cartoon (partly printed right) that showed insensitivity to the developmentally disabled.

A summary of the issues involved are here. Reaction from comic book fans, many of whom dislike Rall, can be found here and by looking around in the first forum here. You can also find pretty easily an example of the blog entries that almost certainly helped kicked off the mini-campaign against the cartoonist that preceded his work being dropped.

I thought this was the most interesting piece because it had the Post's acknowledgement that some of the complainants might not be genuinely reacting to something they discovered on their own, and it seemed to call into question a standard policy of simply allowing editorial cartoonists to augment content on web site's through a blind feed.

I'm not printing the full cartoon out of deference to those who pay Rall to carry his work; all the usual pleas to read the full work in question apply.
 
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