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**ddwayspd** · 07-17-2008, 04:29 PM

I worked for the Post, so there's little I find in bad taste, but this cover doesn't work.

Why? There's no direction telling the reader what his/her point-of-view should be.

If this had been an editorial cartoon labelled "A Racist's Worst Fear" it would have been fine.

But it wasn't, and that lack of context kills it. It's a general problem with New Yorker covers -- which is why I find most of them unfunny and pointless -- but with this inflammatory material, it slides over into bad taste.

As a side note, Anglela Davis? Who on earth has a visual image of Angela Davis in their head at this point? Probably no one under fifty. How the h-ll old are this magazine's readers, anyway?

ali r.

07-17-2008, 04:29 PM	#37
ddwayspd Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 571 Senior Member	I worked for the Post, so there's little I find in bad taste, but this cover doesn't work. Why? There's no direction telling the reader what his/her point-of-view should be. If this had been an editorial cartoon labelled "A Racist's Worst Fear" it would have been fine. But it wasn't, and that lack of context kills it. It's a general problem with New Yorker covers -- which is why I find most of them unfunny and pointless -- but with this inflammatory material, it slides over into bad taste. As a side note, Anglela Davis? Who on earth has a visual image of Angela Davis in their head at this point? Probably no one under fifty. How the h-ll old are this magazine's readers, anyway? ali r.
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