The point of any cartoon in any newspaper is to challenge belief systems. We knew it would offend, but that doesn't make it the explicit goal of the cartoon. |
The rivalry is very much alive. You see a Duke shirt on Franklin Street on a Friday night and they are going to get comments. |
We don't have a singular kind of bias towards anybody -- Muslims, any ethnicity, race, nobody. But most things that we [and most newspapers] do, especially on the editorial page ... are going to offend somebody. |
We're not apologizing for printing the cartoon. I do personally to any caller, letter-writer, anybody that comes in. We're not attempting to offend a certain ethnicity, race, or religion. It just so happens in this case that one was offended, and we did know that going in. |