I live in a small community SE of Columbus. The Dispatch is a paper I don't read - not because it is owned by a conservative family (the Wolfe family)or because the coverage is of a conservative bent. It is because I get most of what the paper can give me thru the internet. Reading newspapers is sooo 20th century.
I was on the internet looking at my standard must-look sites when Crooks and Liars showed me an editorial cartoon printed in the paper that a lot of central Ohioans still read. The cartoon enraged me! The cartoon was straight out of Nazi Germany and I was appauled that such a thing could still be printed nowadays. I mean I love editorial cartoons a lot! Even the ones on the other side can be clever and funny. Sure, most can be cheap shots at our side as is the case for some of our cartoons against their side but I would never imagine something this evil could be accepted.
you ready? here it is:
http://www.cair.com/...
Okay so http://static.crooksandliars.com/... is not from an approved image host what ever that means.
Someone help a fellow albeit illiterate Kossack out here? (I'm still looking for that "any" key to continue)
The image is of a map of the Middle East and where Iran should be we see a manhole cover with what appears to be hundreds of cockroaches crawling out and scurrying all over the map. No caption, no sign pointing at someone who thinks this. Nothing
Crooks and Liars also provided links to people we can contact to express our displeasure and so will I but I wanted to share with you what I wrote.
Seriously! Do you honestly think this "opinion piece" of work is within the bounds of decent discourse? Do you honestly believe the Iranian people who live and work and pay taxes that live in your circulation radius will look at this and not think along the lines of what the Jews in Nazi Germany thought when similar sentiments were printed then? Do you believe you are speaking for the masses when you print this kind of debasement or do you think like the editors of propagandist newspapers in Hitler's time? Do you want people to look at this and say Iranians are insects to be crushed like a bug or some such Final Solution?
Thank God I have alternatives to getting my news and information than having to rely on this piece of crap you call the Dispatch. I have one request because I don't believe you think you need to apologize: please drop the name "Columbus" from your paper as to spare us any further denigration of our fair city. Seriously!
Thank God I have alternatives to getting my news and information than having to rely on this piece of crap you call the Dispatch. I have one request because I don't believe you think you need to apologize: please drop the name "Columbus" from your paper as to spare us any further denigration of our fair city. Seriously!
Any comments? I mean this really took the wind out of my sails. My freakin paper does this! I feel like my great-grandfather must have felt in 1939 before Kristalnacht. Why do we have to be lead like this? what makes a person believe that this sort of thing will sell newspapers?
I'm ashamed of the Dispatch and I'm morose at the thought of central Ohioans agreeing and marching lockstep with Fox and this administration's plans for war with Iran.
What the hell is wrong with these people? My friends have draft age kids and the kids I work with at my church's youth group are of course able to go too!
Please write to these folks and tell them this is America and not Nazi Germany!
http://gsheller@dispatch.com
http://michael.ramirez@investors.com