追踪中国漫画事件

五月十四号克利夫兰报纸 The Plain Dealer 贴出这幅漫画，在一些华人团体和许多个人的压力下，一天后漫画被撤下。今天（五月十八号，星期天）报纸登载了题为“漫画侮辱了华人”的两篇读者来信：

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

同时，编辑给华人组织的负责人写了这个电子邮件，表达了她个人的歉意。

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

编辑同时提到漫画作者收到了很多中国人写来的谩骂邮件。星期一编辑部会开会讨论这件事情。现在的问题是，我们应该怎么办？

有的朋友认为我们已经收到道歉了，这件事可以画上句号了。

有的朋友认为我们应该给报纸更大的压力，要求报纸和作者公开道歉。

有的朋友认为我们应该要求报纸登出我们的公开信，让更多的美国人听到华人的声音。

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如果你有什么想法，比如要求作者和报纸公开道歉，或者告诉他们中国政府这次在地震后到底做了什么，或者希望多登华人的来信，下面是一些联系信息。

如果你觉得谩骂能让美国人改善对华人和中国的印象，请骂他们几句；如果你觉得光靠谩骂是没用的，请考虑你的措辞和语气，在敲“送出”键之前不妨稍稍停顿一下。

1 ．报纸的读者代表 Ted Diadiun 的电子邮件： [e-mail].

2 ．漫画家 Jeff Darcy 的电子邮件： [e-mail].

3。寄给报纸编辑的申诉信 , 在这里填表 : http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/lettertoeditor.ssf.

谢谢大家支持！

[偶灯斯陋]

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

[偶灯斯陋]

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.

[看人世间]

道歉是一种不痛不痒的态度.我们应继续努力并施加压力,使这种人丢饭碗.他才能体会到痛处. 坚决使他丢饭碗.

[扬子江酒店]

看样子道歉也就这样了，想要他们改变对中国的态度不大可能，偏见根深蒂固，希望以后不要再发表这种冷血的漫画。
作者也‘deeply care'? 一个拿别人的痛来攻击人家的人会‘care'? 鬼才信呢！

[明明32]

对美国人已经彻底的失望了

唯一能做的就是希望这个编辑，多刊登一些正面的关于四川地震的报道
其他的还能怎么样呢？炒掉这个漫画作者？让编辑下台？
谩骂和恐吓不是战斗，要最大可能的团结所有人，尤其是蠢人

[greyleggoose]

谢谢你的追踪报道，也谢谢你为中国人民的人权而做的有力抗争。同时也为在这号称最重视人权的国家，有如此冷血和落井下石的事情公开发生在报刊上而不耻，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 谢谢你的追踪报道，让我们看到更多的信息，更加了解，不论什么社会，说话权也好，人权也好，只有我们自己才能为自己争取来！