The comic strip the Globe didn't want you to see today
By adamg - Wed, 11/05/2008 - 2:38pm.
So Gary Trudeau drew a strip for today (weeks ago) assuming Obama would win on Nov. 4. The Globe chickened out and ran a repeat strip about Zonker Harris as a waiter instead of this one.
Via Apple Foot.
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I wondered about that
I noticed they ran an old strip, and figured something had blown the sensitivity breakers at the Glob. But this? This is what blew the breakers? That's lame, Glob.
Sensitivity? Or afraid of being wrong?
The
Sidekick"g" section has an earlier deadline than the hard news sections of the newspaper. I bet the Globe was hedging against the unlikely but non-zero possibility that McCain would win the election, leaving them with a factually wrong (Dewey Beats Truman) comic strip.And who to complain to?
Now that the Globe's nixed its ombudsman.
The Globe owes its readers an explanation for its editors persnickety habit of pulling comics that they think may be controversial.
(It also owes its readers an ombudsman again.)
I say again...
Q: Would you like a free copy of the [Globe|Herald]?
A: No thanks. I read the newspaper.