Sandra Guzman (right), former senior editor at the New York Post, has filed a suit against Rupert Murdoch’s media empire News Corporation and the Post for “a litany of racist and sexist behavior,” according to the Guardian. Guzman was praised at work for creating features that attracted a large Hispanic audience, but things changed. From the Guardian:
…she ran into conflict with management at the Post over the controversial decision to publish a cartoon in February this year that drew an implicit comparison between the recently inaugurated President Barack Obama and a violent chimpanzee shot dead by police. Following a public outcry, Rupert Murdoch was forced to apologise for the cartoon.
Guzman complained about the cartoon in an internal email that was leaked to outside blogs. In the lawsuit, she claims that her complaint was ignored and instead management retaliated against her, leading to her dismissal in September.
She also claims the Obama cartoon was part of a concerted effort by the paper’s management to undermine America’s first black president. The lawsuit alleges that Charles Hurt, the Post’s Washington bureau chief, once told her that the goal was “to destroy Barack Obama. We don’t want him to succeed.”
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Murdoch also owns Fox. Is it any wonder that Obama doesn’t give interviews to Fox News?
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