NY Post’s Apology…ish

After its cartoon caused such a huge uproar (google it) the NY Post has issued this editorial explaining itself:

Wednesday’s Page Six cartoon – caricaturing Monday’s police shooting of a chimpanzee in Connecticut – has created considerable controversy.
It shows two police officers standing over the chimp’s body: "They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill," one officer says.
It was meant to mock an ineptly written federal stimulus bill.
Period.
But it has been taken as something else – as a depiction of President Obama, as a thinly veiled expression of racism.
This most certainly was not its intent; to those who were offended by the image, we apologize.
However, there are some in the media and in public life who have had differences with The Post in the past – and they see the incident as an opportunity for payback.
To them, no apology is due.
Sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon – even as the opportunists seek to make it something else.

 

Though not an apology, the fact that the post had to print something at all is pretty important (I believe that there was a lawsuit involved). It is even more impressive that they printed a follow up within a couple of days, a step that is nearly unheard of for the NY Post. All in all, I think that this story is not really a story at all, and it was just a slow news day for mainstream media.