Too little, too late Rupert Murdoch. You should have apologised days ago, but alas, I fear with your newspaper readership down, you had to sit on this apology for a while and milk what publicity you could out of it. Unless the people of the New York Post are complete idiots... (not possible). Or they are horrifically out of tune with African Americans and how they have been perceived... (really not possible). This Murdoch apology should have arrived overnight. So this writer is not accepting this apology. For the record The owner of the New York Post, Rupert Murdoch, made it official and apologised for a cartoon which critics said was a racist depiction of President Barack Obama as a gun riddled monkey.
Mr Murdoch said the cartoon was meant to mock Mr Obama's legislation and was not intended to be racist.
The newspaper had apologised to readers last week after widespread criticism.
The cartoon, published on 18 February, came a day after Mr Obama signed into law a $787bn (£548bn) economic stimulus package approved by Congress after weeks of wrangling.
The image referred to a gruesome incident earlier that week, when a pet chimp in Connecticut attacked and disfigured a woman before being shot dead by police.
In an editorial in Friday's edition, Mr Murdoch said the paper had made a mistake in publishing the cartoon and that he was sorry for any offence.
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