追蹤中國漫畫事件

五月十四號克利夫蘭報紙 The Plain Dealer 貼出這幅漫畫，在一些華人團體和許多個人的壓力下，一天後漫畫被撤下。今天（五月十八號，星期天）報紙登載了題為“漫畫侮辱了華人”的兩篇讀者來信：

http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/stories/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1211044519121880.xml&coll=2

同時，編輯給華人組織的負責人寫了這個電子郵件，表達了她個人的歉意。

Dear xxx,
Thank you for your note. We have received many phone calls and emails today on this subject and have removed the cartoon from the web site.

I very much regret that people have taken offense about the cartoon, or believe — wrongly — that Jeff does not care about the suffering in China. To the contrary, Jeff cares deeply, and it was from that impulse that he drew the cartoon in the first place.  But he realizes now that he caused great hurt by using a natural disaster to make a political point.

You have my personal apology that you and many others were upset by this matter. Please know that we take your complaints very seriously.

Sincerely,
Susan Goldberg

編輯同時提到漫畫作者收到了很多中國人寫來的謾罵郵件。星期一編輯部會開會討論這件事情。現在的問題是，我們應該怎麽辦？

有的朋友認為我們已經收到道歉了，這件事可以畫上句號了。

有的朋友認為我們應該給報紙更大的壓力，要求報紙和作者公開道歉。

有的朋友認為我們應該要求報紙登出我們的公開信，讓更多的美國人聽到華人的聲音。

。。。。。。

如果你有什麽想法，比如要求作者和報紙公開道歉，或者告訴他們中國政府這次在地震後到底做了什麽，或者希望多登華人的來信，下麵是一些聯係信息。

如果你覺得謾罵能讓美國人改善對華人和中國的印象，請罵他們幾句；如果你覺得光靠謾罵是沒用的，請考慮你的措辭和語氣，在敲“送出”鍵之前不妨稍稍停頓一下。

1 ．報紙的讀者代表 Ted Diadiun 的電子郵件： [e-mail].

2 ．漫畫家 Jeff Darcy 的電子郵件： [e-mail].

3。寄給報紙編輯的申訴信 , 在這裏填表 : http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/lettertoeditor.ssf.

謝謝大家支持！

[偶燈斯陋]

The publication of Darcy cartoon shows the newspaper's lack of human decency.
Typo--Re: "The publication is Darcy cartoon shows the newspaper's lack of human decency."

In fact, Darcy cartoon hurt not only Chinese people, but also himself and the newspaper--his bias hurt his own creditability.

[pjx]

Here is the response I received.



Dear XX,

As our readers will see in a note that will run in the paper tomorrow, The Plain Dealer deeply regrets that some of our readers were offended by the May 14 editorial cartoon relating to the earthquake in China.

It is not true that Jeff Darcy does not care about the suffering in China. To the contrary, he cares deeply, and it was from that impulse that he drew the cartoon in the first place. But he realizes now that he caused great hurt to some by using a natural disaster to make a political point.

We take seriously the reaction of our readers. The cartoon many viewed as offensive has also been removed from Cleveland.com, the newspaper's web site.

Thank you for writing.

Ted Diadiun
Reader Representative




Jeff:

The depiction (the rat, earthquake, and Dalai) you made indicated that 1) you are very ignorant and do not know what's shame; 2)you are not a human being.

XX

[偶燈斯陋]

It's a stab in the back to Chinese who are heart and soul on the rescue and relief of the sufferings from the natural disaster of the 5-12-08 earthquake and there is no room to attend what the Dalai Lama or anyone else is doing/thinking. Jeff Darcy put his words into the mouth of other people (China) which is fabricating (making and spreading rumors), and this is totally against the ethics of journalism. His cartoon reveals his callous lack of human decency. The publication is Darcy cartoon shows the newspaper's lack of human decency.
Susan Goldberg's apology is hardly acceptable if she does not recognize this fact.

[看人世間]

道歉是一種不痛不癢的態度.我們應繼續努力並施加壓力,使這種人丟飯碗.他才能體會到痛處. 堅決使他丟飯碗.

[揚子江酒店]

看樣子道歉也就這樣了，想要他們改變對中國的態度不大可能，偏見根深蒂固，希望以後不要再發表這種冷血的漫畫。
作者也‘deeply care'? 一個拿別人的痛來攻擊人家的人會‘care'? 鬼才信呢！

[明明32]

對美國人已經徹底的失望了

唯一能做的就是希望這個編輯，多刊登一些正麵的關於四川地震的報道
其他的還能怎麽樣呢？炒掉這個漫畫作者？讓編輯下台？
謾罵和恐嚇不是戰鬥，要最大可能的團結所有人，尤其是蠢人

[greyleggoose]

謝謝你的追蹤報道，也謝謝你為中國人民的人權而做的有力抗爭。同時也為在這號稱最重視人權的國家，有如此冷血和落井下石的事情公開發生在報刊上而不恥，和巨大失望。

[dafufu]

what I wrote to the author
"I feel sorry for you, and am shamed to be a fellow
human being with you. You are such a cold blood liar.
I am actually speechless about the thing you did. You
are such a devil. Shame on you."

[weiweian212]

Panda2008 謝謝你的追蹤報道，讓我們看到更多的信息，更加了解，不論什麽社會，說話權也好，人權也好，隻有我們自己才能為自己爭取來！