WaPo Ombudsman Scolds Own Paper for Spiking 'Where's Muhammad?' Cartoon -- With No Prophet Image
Wiley Miller's comic strip Non Sequitur is not a conservative strip. Right before the 2008 election, one of his characters was told that making up the news was illegal, and she replied "You don't see Rupert Murdoch in prison, do you?" But Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander reported Sunday that the Post censored Miller's "Where's Muhammad?" Sunday strip for October 3 -- even though there was no image of the Muslim prophet in the art work.
Alan Gardner of The Daily Cartoonist (who has the image) reports the Post was apparently not alone: readers also reported a substituted strip at many major dailies, including the Arizona Republic, Arizona Star, Austin American-Statesman, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Dallas Morning News, Daytona Beach News-Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, Salt Lake Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Seattle Times, and Syracuse Post-Standard.
The joke caption for "Where's Muhammad?" was "Picture book least likely to ever find a publisher." The Post ombudsman said editors were wrong to pull the cartoon:
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Knock Knock!
Submitted by miss911ninja on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 12:56am.
Do we have to POST a comment now to read comments?
The newspapers that pulled
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 7:49am.
The newspapers that pulled the cartoon are the ones who truly suffer from Islamaphobia.
The Arizona Republic
Submitted by Chupacabra on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 9:26am.
used to be a solid, Conservative paper. I liked it so much that I even had a subscriptions sent to me while I was in the Army in Germany.
Of course, now it has turned into just another in the almost endless list of uber liberal rags suitable for little more than lining the bottom of your bird cage.
Their reader base has plummeted, the actual size and volume of the paper is a mere shadow of it's former self. They are constantly laying off staff...but they just don't get it.
Where's Muhammad?
Submitted by misterbee241 on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 9:44am.
Muhammad is the pedophile hiding behind the bush.
So now American media have to have approval from Ibrahim (Doug) Hooper before they run anything. If only they were so sensitive to Christians. But Christians wont bomb the offender's cars or kill their kids, will they, Ibrahim?
Intentionally stupid
Submitted by verbatim on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 12:55pm.
"the point of the joke was not immediately clear" -- They can't be that dumb. It must be they're being intentionally stupid.