McClatchy newspaper says it won’t drop conservative cartoon after all
The hand-wringing is over — McClatchy’s News & Observer has declared conservative-leaning cartoon Mallard Fillmore can stay at the N&O.
The N&O had been bombarded with complaints from Obama supporters who were upset that the Mallard Fillmore cartoon had been bashing Barack Obama. The newspaper had been undergoing a weeks-long “review” about whether to move the cartoon to the editorial page or dump it. The N&O’s public editor Ted Vaden weighed in several weeks ago, and recommended the paper cancel Mallard Fillmore altogether. (How’s that for a ringing endorsement of free speech?)
John Drescher’s announcement that Mallard Fillmore will stay on the N&O cartoon page came Saturday.