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Rupert Murdoch, the Chairman of News Corp, which owns the New York Post, personally apologized Tuesday for an editorial cartoon published last week that showed a police officer telling his colleague who just shot a chimpanzee, “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.”
“Last week we made a mistake,” he wrote in a statement printed on Page 2 of the Post. “We ran a cartoon that offended many people. Today I want to personally apologize to any reader who felt offended, and even insulted.”
Gov. David A. Paterson, Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand, the Rev. Al Sharpton and others had expressed concern about the cartoon, which critics said implicitly compared President Obama with the primate and evoked a history of racist imagery of blacks. The chimpanzee was an apparent reference to the 200-pound pet chimpanzee that was shot dead by a police officer in Stamford, Conn., on Monday evening, after it mauled a friend of his owner.
The New York Post editorial board issued an apology on Feb. 19, the day after the cartoon drawn by Sean Delonas was printed, “to those who were offended,” while maintaining that the cartoon was not intended to be racist.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Here’s the full text of Mr. Murdoch’s <span style="font-style: italic">stronger apology</span>:</span>
As the Chairman of the New York Post, I am ultimately responsible for what is printed in its pages. The buck stops with me.
Last week, we made a mistake. We ran a cartoon that offended many people. Today I want to personally apologize to any reader who felt offended, and even insulted.
Over the past couple of days, I have spoken to a number of people and <span style="font-weight: bold">I now better understand the hurt this cartoon has caused. </span>
<span style="font-style: italic">At the same time, I have had conversations with Post editors about the situation and I can assure you — without a doubt — that the only intent of that cartoon was to mock a badly written piece of legislation. It was not meant to be racist, but unfortunately, it was interpreted by many as such.</span> We all hold the readers of the New York Post in high regard and I promise you that we will seek to be more attuned to the sensitivities of our community.
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