{"id":5910,"date":"2009-11-19T08:48:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T14:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/19\/mallard-fillmore-protested-at-newsday\/"},"modified":"2009-11-19T08:58:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T14:58:22","slug":"mallard-fillmore-protested-at-newsday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/19\/mallard-fillmore-protested-at-newsday\/","title":{"rendered":"Mallard Fillmore protested at Newsday"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mallard-fillmore-hate-crime.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mallard-fillmore-hate-crime.gif\" alt=\"mallard-fillmore-hate-crime\" title=\"mallard-fillmore-hate-crime\" width=\"590\" height=\"269\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mallard-fillmore-hate-crime.gif 590w, https:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mallard-fillmore-hate-crime-300x136.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\"><\/a><\/p><p>About 20 people picketed the offices of Newsday yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004044225\">protesting the publishing of a <em>Mallard Fillmore<\/em> cartoon last Sunday<\/a> and demanded that the editor, John Mancini, be fired for running the cartoon according to Editor &amp; Publisher.<\/p><p>The cartoon depicts a large dinosaur chasing a smaller saying, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not chasing you because you&rsquo;re a pachycephalosaurus &hellip; I&rsquo;m chasing you because you&rsquo;re delicious&rdquo; in which the small dinosaur responds, &ldquo;Oh, thank goodness. I was worried that this might be a hate crime.&rdquo; The cartoon ran a week after the first year anniversary of the death of an Ecuadorian immigrant at the hands of seven teenagers. Protestors felt that running the cartoon reduced hate crimes to a joke.<\/p><p>Newsday issued a statement saying, &ldquo;we expect the cartoons we publish, many of which are nationally syndicated, to amuse, stir and entertain, but never to offend. Hate crime is a serious issue. This nationally syndicated cartoon should never have run and we have expressed our concern to the syndicator.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 20 people picketed the offices of Newsday yesterday protesting the publishing of a Mallard Fillmore cartoon last Sunday and demanded that the editor, John Mancini, be fired for running the cartoon according to Editor &amp; Publisher.The cartoon depicts a large dinosaur chasing a smaller saying, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not chasing you because you&rsquo;re a pachycephalosaurus &hellip; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-strips","category-controversies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}