Comments on: Emerald finds cartoonist titillating, disproportional

By: Timothy

Timothy — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:52:05 +0000

Damn son, more errors than a little league baseball game.

By: bryan

bryan — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:37:12 +0000

The article inaccurately corrects itself in stating that Speigelman presented 12 cartoons depicting Mohammed, implying that he showed only 12 images, and that the images were his own. He did show the 12 images that ran in Jyllands-Possand, but only after presenting a number of other images. The correction inaccurately implies that he did not show a white screen, saying, “this is a picture of the prophet,” followed by another white screen, saying, “this is the prophet in profile,” followed by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon with Hobbes saying, “it sure is hard to draw Mohammed.”

Basically, the Emerald overreacted in slapping down its reporter, going so far as to state that he was incorrect for providing certain bits of information while leaving others out– presumably in response to this post.

The Commentator regrets the Emerald’s errors.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 19:02:08 +0000

The article now has the longest list of corrections I can ever recall attached to an ODE story:

Correction:

Because of a reporter’s error, Tuesday’s “Art Spiegelman promotes ‘comic’ relief” incorrectly reported Spiegelman’s past position. He has never been the art director of The New Yorker, although his wife, Francoise Mouly, has been the magazine’s art director.

The article incorrectly quoted Spiegelman. He said, “This is a performance by a neurotic, self-absorbed cartoonist from New York.”

The article inaccurately reported the experiences of Spiegelman’s daughter on Sept. 11. She saw people falling past her window.

The article inaccurately described the illustrations of Muhammad that Spiegelman discussed. Spiegelman presented 12 cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad.

The article inaccurately reported that an Arab cartoon showed a person “bowing to a shrine representing the holocaust and Judaism.” The shrine was a toilet.

The article reported that one of Spiegelman’s covers for The New Yorker depicted a rabbi. He was a Hasidic Jew, not necessarily a rabbi.

The article inaccurately described a cartoon depicting an illustrator stabbing the prophet Muhammad in the back. The illustrator was stabbing Islam in the back.

The Emerald regrets the errors.