Comments on: Notre Dame Observer Faces Outrage Over ‘Anti-Gay’ Comic

By: Student Newspaper Cartoon Mixes Sex, Haiti, Controversy « College Media Matters

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:37:47 +0000

[...] For Notre Dame’s Observer, it was charges of blatant gay bashing. For Delta’s Collegiate, it was questions of implicit possible racism. For the Alligator, the criticisms seem to focus on two main elements: poking fun at an issue related to an uber-tragedy still in progress and delivering that poke in a manner seen as overly vulgar, given the seriousness of the event at its core. Or more simply: sex, satire, and Haiti, too soon to stir that pot. [...]

By: Another Student Press Comic Controversy Erupts in Michigan « College Media Matters

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:17:44 +0000

[...] 24, 2010 by Dan Although muted on a national level amid the Notre Dame Observer furor, another student press comic mess has been playing out in Michigan. A four-panel [...]

By: Gregory Polanski

Gregory Polanski — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:39:47 +0000

Currently traveling between Miami and Florida, reading this on my Iphone. Will read it in full when I get back, and I will also post a backlink on my website. Thanks.

By: NYU Local – Nobody Accepts Notre Dame Newspaper Staff’s Apology for Gay-Bashing Joke

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:50:00 +0000

[...] that offensive comic strip that ran in Notre Dame student newspaper The Observer last week? Of course you do. Well, the editorial staff penned a long apology shortly [...]