Discussion for article #232035
And, there should be someone better, ie much much more professional, than Dean running the paper. What kind of person in such a responsible position goes around publicly calling someone an a@@hole ? What kind of person does that!!! Says a lot about his thought process and how low the NY Times has sunk. Poor judgement from this…person.
Of COURSE it was cowardly. In fact, that’s the whole problem with the New York Times. They’ve become so comfortable, they’re mired in cowardice.
Chickenshits.
So I take it that’s not an AP photo. Do you mind crediting the photographer TPM for the photo you have, or is that from your own staff photographer?
“The cartoon itself, while it may disturb the sensibilities of a small percentage of Times readers, is neither shocking nor gratuitously offensive.”
What an ethnocentric load of crap. Not gratuitously offensive to you.
I’m sure they would likewise put anti-Semetic pics on the front page if there was “news value”?
We once talked about the Times as a significant source of News. Now we are talking about a paper that fired its Labor Editor and replaced that section with a Men’s Fashion section.
Particularly not gratuitously offensive is the stereotyping of the Arab characteristics because well they all have big noses and beards, wear turbans, etc.