Bors toon PREDICTED that NY Times "Michael Brown is no angel" article

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Sadly even the NY Times can be as bad as most other sources.

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1. How they operate.

Used to be a darn good magazine to correct the paper of record, Lies Of Our Times.

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2. Yep. Article in the Washington post also pointing this out

By Michael Cavna

BECAUSE CARTOONIST MATT BORS is a cultural critic, journalism often finds itself square in his cross-hairs — whether some fellow editorial cartoonists are reflexively drawing the late mogul/Buddhist Steve Jobs at the gates of St. Peter, or news networks are reporting a massive factual error that ends up personally drawing him into a story.

But even the Portland-based commentator and editor of Medium’s The Nib is surprised when his cartoon critique begins to ring of prophecy.

In this case, the eerie foretelling involves an Aug. 18 cartoon he drew about the Michael Brown case — and the wording and approach in a New York Times retrospective that ran nearly a week later.

In his syndicated political cartoon, titled “Fear of a Black Victim,” two commentaries after tragic crimes are contrasted by race. In the second case, alluding to the Michael Brown shooting death by police in Ferguson, the commentator declares: “We’ve uncovered a selfie of this kid smoking a cigarette.” Then the kicker balloon: “He was no angel.”

So it was more than a bit jarring than on Sunday, the Times’s retrospective said, to quote, that Brown “was no angel.”

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/08/25/michael-brown-cartoon-how-the-new-york-times-turned-matt-bors-satire-into-real-prescience/?tid=trending_strip_6