When news breaks that turns a harmless cartoon into one of bad taste, someone flags it in time. But not this time. Today’s “Broom-Hilda” had passed from memory by the time the slayings occurred.

The Chicago Tribune issued an apology this week, after running a Broom Hilda cartoon that seemed to be in bad taste following the Colorado movie massacre -- even though it was written well beforehand.

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