I mean, even if it were intended with malice which I also doubt on a list of rotten things that bigots have done to my people, a clumsy joke in a comic strip doesn't even make the Top 10,000. This determination is attributed to The Washington Post and is echoed by similar quotes from World Magazine and Time Magazine. Johnny Hart's B.C. is under fire for being too overtly Christian. The media love extremes the biggest this, the most expensive that.
Reporters love to elevate whatever they're assigned to write about.
Makes them more important. A few weeks ago, you probably heard or read somewhere the oft-cited contention that more than a billion people tune in to watch each Academy Awards ceremony. Odds are, you just accepted that, perhaps registering a smidgen of awe. This year, the Nielsen Ratings said that 72.2 million Americans watched some portion of the Oscar telecast. Think how many would tune in if the show were actually entertaining.