Spike Lee Throws Down in N.Y. Post Cartoon Controversy
If the higher-ups at the New York Post thought that running a simple apology for printing the now-notorious chimpanzee cartoon this week would constitute enough damage control to do the trick, here comes filmmaker Spike Lee -- along with the Post's arch-rival publication, the New York Daily News -- to disabuse them of this notion.
If the higher-ups at the New York Post thought that running a simple apology for printing the now-notorious chimpanzee cartoon this week would constitute enough damage control to do the trick, here comes filmmaker Spike Lee — along with the Post’s arch-rival publication, the New York Daily News — to disabuse them of that notion.
TRUTHDIG’S JOURNALISM REMAINS CLEARNew York Daily News:
Filmmaker Spike Lee led the call for celebrities to join a boycott of the New York Post Friday during a raucous protest of a racially charged cartoon.
Joined by his 11-year-old son, Lee told a crowd of about 300 people that he has bought the tabloid in the past — but no more.
And he suggested athletes and entertainers shun the paper’s writers because of Wednesday’s cartoon, which compared President Obama with a crazed chimp by some interpretations.
“This is not the end,” Lee told the demonstrators, who marched in front of the Post’s offices near Rockefeller Center shouting, “Shut it down.”
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