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The Daily Texan, a student newspaper at the University of Texas in Austin, pulled a controversial cartoon about the media coverage of the Trayvon Martin case on Tuesday.

The cartoon critiques the media coverage of Martin’s death, which has become a national episode. A woman reading to a child from a book labeled “Treyvon [sic] Martin and the Case of Yellow Journalism” says in a speech bubble “And then, the BIG BAD WHITE man killed the handsome, sweet, innocent colored boy.” It ran in the March 27, 2012 edition of the DT.

The cartoon was done by Stephanie Eisner. Gawker noted the student paper pulled the cartoon from their website on Tuesday afternoon. However, a copy can still be seen online in the PDF copy of their print edition.

Eisner’s drawing is not the first cartoon to editorialize the Martin case. Bloggers on the Daily Kos and artists like J.D. Crowe and Rob Rogers have offered their own takes in cartoon form.

To see the cartoon, click on the link below:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/27/university-of-texas-trayv_n_1383539.html?ref=topbar

Article Courtesy of The Huffington Post