http://www.nypost.com/delonas/2006/10/10132006.jpg
Of all places the comic would show up I would never have thought it would come up in a NYC newspaper... looks like the NY Post wants to shrink it's daily production numbers... I'm sure subscribers will cancel after seeing that comic... anyone in their right mind wouldn't read their paper after seeing how low their standards are with that comic.
2006-10-14 07:08:14 · 9 answers · asked by rjakjr 3 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
They're not degrading his death??? How do you figure??? They're making his death a JOKE, that's about as low as it gets and YES... DEGRADING is what the newspaper did... making a joke of someone's death ESPECIALLY how he died, is pathetic and tasteless.
2006-10-14 07:15:39 · update #1
Yes i have to agree maybe new york isnt the right place to publish it but it still is a good comic and everyone has to have a little comic relief from the death of lidle. Just the Steve Irwin everyone made there jokes about his silly accent and all the dumb things he did and thats just because thats how people deal with their sadness. Trust me the comic......its not a big deal and its not like they are degrading his death or anything.
2006-10-14 07:12:26 · answer #1 · answered by Justin B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree that it's in bad taste but it's an editorial cartoon and the paper should not exercise censorship over editorial items. The NY Post has one of the best circulations of any NYC paper because it tells the news that other papers like the NY Times doesn't. I doubt this cartoon will change that. In addition, aren't you just a little too exercised over this? I mean, really, the guy was a baseball player. I think that's the point of the cartoon - all the fuss over someone that really doesn't contribute much to anything but the Team's pockets (as well as his own).
2006-10-14 07:22:01 · answer #2 · answered by canela 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, it's appropriate.
Consider the history of rich people who are neophytes in airplanes. From Thurmond Munson to Kennedy to John Denver to Lidle, they seem to think they're immortal.
Only they're not. Not even close. And it only takes one misjudgement in something as unforgiving as an airplane to make this point clear... again.
Lidle is dead. Nothing we do can hurt him. But the next Lidle, or Kennedy, or whoever... do you think that just maybe this cartoon might make them a little less likely to take risks and avoid becoming a statistic?
It would be one thing if we passed a law and tried to force people to stop doing things (that they might very well be able to do safely). It's another thing to PUBLISH A CARTOON which might make them go "Hmmm... maybe I shouldn't this time. There will be another day."
2006-10-14 07:26:01 · answer #3 · answered by Engineer-Poet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The NY Post is entirely tasteless and pathetic. Not just the comics. Yet it's circulation has jumped leaps and bounds in the last five years. I guess they know how to please a certain segment of society.
2006-10-14 07:16:56 · answer #4 · answered by mac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a joke, I don't think it was meant as degrading. They have published a million other things for which I pay no attention to these papers.
2006-10-14 08:11:01 · answer #5 · answered by I'm just me 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. This is the UK/Ireland site
2. It's a yankee paper so only to be expected
3. I don't open sites I don't know
4. So who died?
5. Do we care?
2006-10-14 07:41:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you are right. Just whose death is it about?
2006-10-14 08:35:49 · answer #7 · answered by Avner Eliyahu R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I thought it was pretty funny.
2006-10-14 07:15:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not meant to be taken seriously. So don't please, I'm sure no offense was intended.
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2006-10-14 08:13:46 · answer #9 · answered by Alice Gill 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋