Doonesbury strip shows man's head on platter

mens_issues writes "The Doonesbury comic strip (by Gary Trudeau) for May 23 shows the character “Joanie” carrying a platter with a university president’s head on it. The headless man says “What’s this?” to which she replies “A good start.”

The strip's site is found here. Universal Press apologized for running the strip so soon after Nicholas Berg’s beheading in Iraq.

Why it would be OK to have published the cartoon if the beheading had not recently taken place?

Steve"

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