Newspapers across the country are pulling the “Dilbert” cartoon after a racist podcast by creator and writer Scott Adams.
Adams said to his Coffee with Scott Adams Online video program in which whites “for God’s sake get away from blacks” and call blacks a “hate group”.
The Dilbert cartoon is a satire on office politics and has been around for over three decades. It spawned a media empire that includes dozens of books, a video game, an animated television series, and thousands of coffee mugs and related merchandise. In 1997, Adams received the National Cartoonists Society’s top honor, the Reuben Award.
of Cleveland The normal trader published a letter to the editor on Friday saying it was not a “difficult decision” to cut the Adams cartoon. “We are not a home for those who embrace racism,” the editor wrote. He added that Advance Media, the publisher, is taking similar steps at its other properties.
John Hiner of MLive Media in Michigan echoed the usual dealer. He wrote in an editorial: “We will work quickly to find a replacement who will entertain you and not violate basic standards of decency and respect for others.”
Source: Deadline
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