Thursday, February 19, 2009

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Bsi 2,100.15 -16.39 -.77%

A New York Post cartoon stirs controversy, sending the Index lower for the day.

"America's oldest continuously published daily piece of bullshit."

While some analysts might give one or two individuals a pass and say the cartoon hit a racial blind spot, those of us who've worked in newspapers know that something like this goes through several hands.  So there's no way the "double-meaning" of the cartoon was missed by so many people.