chimp cartoon

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 1:00PM 10/07/2009
    It's been almost eight months since the New York Post published a cartoon that many interpreted as a racially-loaded swipe at President Obama. The furor the cartoon generated has largely dissipated, but now it threatens to flare up again following the firing of an editor who criticized the paper...

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 3:40PM 8/18/2009
    A boycott aimed at getting batty Fox News host Glenn Beck off the air has been remarkably successful, attracting support from Wal-Mart, CVS, Best Buy, and a slew of other major advertisers. Too bad it's not going to work. Some people, including my DailyFinance colleague Peter Cohan, think all this...

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 4:00PM 6/11/2009
    Rupert Murdoch is ever so sorry that the New York Post, which he owns, published a cartoon suggesting, however inadvertently, that Barack Obama is like an out-of-control chimpanzee who needs to be gunned down. How sorry? So much so that News Corp. has gone and formed an actual, honest-to-God...