Article Removed
From the edition on November 4th, 2008 15 Comments Printer-Friendly
In the last issue of The Newt we published an article entitled “Jewish Economic Policy” which attracted a number of complaints from readers, both on the website and via email. The article has been removed permanently online; we have been in contact with College officials during the discussions concerning this article, and have tried to ensure that it was removed as quickly as possible.
The article, which was intended to be satirical, was at the same time deeply offensive to some of our readership. We entirely accept that its humour was both inappropriate and distasteful, and was representative of a type of humour based on prejudiced stereotyping that should not be perpetuated., and apologise for the offence it has caused.
We have taken from this episode some valuable lessons that will help us to be better writers and editors in the future, and at the same time are working to establish a new complaints procedure in order to handle any future concerns more effectively.
Author
This article has been removed.
• Comments (15)
• Trackbacks & Pingbacks (0)
• Lisa said:
Come on, can’t you be funny without being racist? This is quite tasteless, and either VERY childish, or quite worrying!
-November 11th, 2008 at 11:17 am
• Julie said:
This article is deeply offensive and hurtful. That New College would allow anti-Semitic rhetoric – even if presented supposedly in jest – to be published makes me ashamed to be an Oxford student.
Taken from www.thenewt.co.uk/2008/11/04 *This site has now been removed from public access-maybe so that the students can only offend each other?
No comments:
Post a Comment