Apple to Reconsider Banning Prize-Winning Satirist

Interesting story from Wired...Bad PR Forces Apple to Reconsider Banning Prize-Winning Satirist. As a fan of Mark Fiore before he became the Pulitzer Prize winning Mark Fiore, I found Apple's first decision and their reconsideration to be worth pointing out. Part of the recommended article:

Bending to bad publicity, Apple has asked Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Mark Fiore to resubmit the iPhone app it rejected four months ago because the app satirized public figures in violation of its policies. Fiore did just that Friday morning, even though he says he feels a bit odd about it.

“I feel a little bit guilty because it feels like I am getting preferential treatment,” Fiore said.

Apple rejected Fiore’s app in December, several months before Fiore won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. In rejecting it, Apple cited its rules that prohibit making fun of public figures, which is exactly what the Pulitzer Prize committee praised about Fiore’s Flash animations.

Fiore told Wired.com Friday that after news of his ban came to light this week in an interview with Nieman Journalism Labs, Apple called him and suggested he resubmit his app.

News of the ban ricocheted around the net Thursday and prompted the prestigious Columbia Journalism Review to call on media outlets to pull their apps from Apple’s online store.