Globe Cartoonist Rediscovers Diversity - To Portray Black As Victim

Boston Globe/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

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by Mark Finkelstein

September 1, 2006 - 07:34

In a recent comment on an editorial cartoon in the Boston Globe showing an all-white group of execs gloating over increasing profits as a bedraggled worker hung by his hands, I noted that the Globe's commitment to "diversity disappears when portraying corporate meanies."

Great news - just two days later, the Globe has rediscovered diversity! Oh, to be sure, the two corporate meanies in Dan Wasserman's cartoon are both white males. One even sports a suspiciously Nixonian five-o'clock shadow. But an African-American does turn up - as the victim.

The cartoon accompanies a Globe editorial condemning the tobacco industry on the heels of a study "showing that tobacco companies increased levels of nicotine in most cigarette brands by an average of 10 percent between 1998 and 2004." The Globe alleges this was a corporate plot to keep smokers hooked.

You can see where this is leading. The Globe concludes its editorial by proposing that "Congress should put Americans' lives before this powerful lobby and order the FDA to regulate tobacco."

But back to the cartoon - even art isn't exempt from the PC-politics of the MSM.

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Compare cartoon of two days ago:

with cartoon of today

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Boston Globe/NewsBusters PC-cartoons ping to Today show list.

[martin_fierro]

Washington Mutual Banks have been taking a similar approach lately (those evil white bankers!).

[EagleUSA]

Yes, the left working hard to keep the "black victims" of America right on the plantation (in the lib voting booth) where they want them -- otherwise, they could care less about them, or anyone else for that matter.

[ditto h]

I ask anyone to sit down to 10 minutes of t.v. ads. and I'll bet you a white, male is the bad/dumb/out of step/mean,etc. subject of 90% of the ads.

[raybbr]

"Bring in the champagne".