The PNJ just lost the subscriptions of every firehouse in escambia county and the city over this racist cartoon.
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Azadeh wrote:I'm shocked that they would even print something like that.
Markle wrote:Andy Marlette must have been desperate for an idea. This time he played right into the hands of the race baiters. I'll bet Jesse Jackson, Sr. and Jr., the Rev. Wright, the Rev. Al Sharpton and others are thrilled.
They didn't even have to get out of bed and white cartoonist stirs the race pot all by himself.
Azadeh wrote:Markle wrote:Andy Marlette must have been desperate for an idea. This time he played right into the hands of the race baiters. I'll bet Jesse Jackson, Sr. and Jr., the Rev. Wright, the Rev. Al Sharpton and others are thrilled.
They didn't even have to get out of bed and white cartoonist stirs the race pot all by himself.
You sound smug. So give yourself a pat on the back.
Azadeh wrote:Markle wrote:Andy Marlette must have been desperate for an idea. This time he played right into the hands of the race baiters. I'll bet Jesse Jackson, Sr. and Jr., the Rev. Wright, the Rev. Al Sharpton and others are thrilled.
They didn't even have to get out of bed and white cartoonist stirs the race pot all by himself.
You sound smug. So give yourself a pat on the back.
Pcola News Journal wrote:I emailed pnj exec editor Dick Schneider re this issue & this was his reply:
June 18, 2012
John:
If the criticism is that Andy’s metaphor of an historical even that was related to newspapers in Alabama doesn’t work, I would disagree but respect the complaint.
If the criticism is offered on a literal interpretation of the cartoon, that somehow the layoffs at Alabama newspaper will result in firefighters hosing black children, a remarkable jump of assumption, then I would suggest the reader missed the point entirely.
Richard A. Schneider
Executive Editor / Director of
Content and Readership Development
Pensacola News Journal and pnj.com
101 E. Romana St., Pensacola FL 32502
850.435.8514 (office) 850.435.8633 (fax)
dschneider@pnj.com
Almost.. if the papers were more honest and straight forward in their articles it would have..many of them have an agenda from the higher ups these days and are slanted views on most issues. You should read the times picayune after a Saints game..if you didn't see the score you would swear they won games that were lost just by how it's reported.Yella wrote:Pcola News Journal wrote:I emailed pnj exec editor Dick Schneider re this issue & this was his reply:
June 18, 2012
John:
If the criticism is that Andy’s metaphor of an historical even that was related to newspapers in Alabama doesn’t work, I would disagree but respect the complaint.
If the criticism is offered on a literal interpretation of the cartoon, that somehow the layoffs at Alabama newspaper will result in firefighters hosing black children, a remarkable jump of assumption, then I would suggest the reader missed the point entirely.
Richard A. Schneider
Executive Editor / Director of
Content and Readership Development
Pensacola News Journal and pnj.com
101 E. Romana St., Pensacola FL 32502
850.435.8514 (office) 850.435.8633 (fax)
dschneider@pnj.com
I think Schneider made his point.
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Yella wrote:Pcola News Journal wrote:I emailed pnj exec editor Dick Schneider re this issue & this was his reply:
June 18, 2012
John:
If the criticism is that Andy’s metaphor of an historical even that was related to newspapers in Alabama doesn’t work, I would disagree but respect the complaint.
If the criticism is offered on a literal interpretation of the cartoon, that somehow the layoffs at Alabama newspaper will result in firefighters hosing black children, a remarkable jump of assumption, then I would suggest the reader missed the point entirely.
Richard A. Schneider
Executive Editor / Director of
Content and Readership Development
Pensacola News Journal and pnj.com
101 E. Romana St., Pensacola FL 32502
850.435.8514 (office) 850.435.8633 (fax)
dschneider@pnj.com
I think Schneider made his point.
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