Media incite racial hatred and division:
6/19/12, "Firefighters protest Pensacola News Journal cartoon," Jim Romenesko.com
"FIREFIGHTERS’ UNION PRESIDENT: “We rely on the sound, unbiased work of real reporters and editors to bring us the news, but on June 16, Andy Marlette and the Pensacola News Journal violated that standard by printing a senseless, confusing and bigoted illustration that should never have reached print.”
CARTOONIST ANDY MARLETTE: “In the context of the mass layoffs of Alabama’s journalists, the cartoon is a dark comment on the fact that the most sinister things happen — in fact have always happened — when nobody is there to show and tell about them.”"
* Firefighters want Pensacola News Journal to apologize for cartoon (pnj.com)
* Read the union’s full statement about the cartoon (Ricks Blog)
* Earlier: Cartoonist Andy Marlette isn’t afraid of controversy (The Compass)
1963 photo from Birmingham, Ala.
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Among comments:
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Richard Wells · Top Commenter · Principal at The Wellynn Group, LLC
"I have to agree with the firefighters on this one. This cartoon is just insulting to them without really making the point it wants to make. For one thing, during the state-sponsored disruption of civil rights demonstrations in the 60s in the South, it wasn't the fire departments that decided to hose down the protestors--it was the civil authorities that gave the orders. Furthermore, perhaps the cartoonist might have chosen a more recent example of government abuse that deserves media attention. As it is, he's chosen an image from 50 years ago that I'd bet is lost on many contemporary readers."
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Jeff Pijanowski
"You beat me to the punch Richard. You're spot on with your comments."
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Afi Scruggs · Top Commenter
"Richard, that is an excellent critique."
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Jim Tapley -Drexel Univeristy
"Would it have killed the artist to put the guys on the hose in civilian dress? But as stated elsewhere, he does like controversy."
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Nicole Cody
"This cartoon is historically based. Folks reading this know it's based on the '60s."
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Robert Knilands · Top Commenter · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Bill Cooke · Top Commenter
"The glass is half full: Firefighters are still reading newspapers!"
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Paulette Hughes Kornegay · Brookwood High School
"Still?"
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Ed. note: Among the cartoon's messages is media's belief that they're the good guys standing guard over the nation, are morally superior, that the mere fact of their existence keeps the rest of us from doing bad things we'd really like to do which in the case of white people includes enacting brutality and violence against blacks.
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Jeff Pijanowski
"You beat me to the punch Richard. You're spot on with your comments."
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Afi Scruggs · Top Commenter
"Richard, that is an excellent critique."
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Jim Tapley -Drexel Univeristy
"Would it have killed the artist to put the guys on the hose in civilian dress? But as stated elsewhere, he does like controversy."
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Nicole Cody
"This cartoon is historically based. Folks reading this know it's based on the '60s."
Robert Knilands · Top Commenter · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Bill Cooke · Top Commenter
"The glass is half full: Firefighters are still reading newspapers!"
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Paulette Hughes Kornegay · Brookwood High School
"Still?"
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Ed. note: Among the cartoon's messages is media's belief that they're the good guys standing guard over the nation, are morally superior, that the mere fact of their existence keeps the rest of us from doing bad things we'd really like to do which in the case of white people includes enacting brutality and violence against blacks.
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