"The Australian Press Council received several complaints about the caricature by cartoonist Mark Knight, with concerns that the depiction of Williams had features that made it an offensive and sexist representation of a female athlete and a prejudicial racial stereotype of African American people.After adjudication, the council said on Monday the cartoon did not breach media standards of "causing substantial offence, distress or prejudice". The executive chairman of News Corp Australia, Michael Miller, said criticism of Knight “shows the world has gone too PC”.The editor of the Herald Sun, Damon Johnston, has said it had nothing to do with race or gender.“A champion tennis player had a mega-tantrum on the world stage, and Mark’s cartoon depicted that,” Johnston said last year. Gary Jones on taking over Daily Express: ‘It was anti-immigrant. Nothing to do with race whatsoever An indignant Williams emphatically defended herself, denying she had cheated and called the umpire a "liar" and a "thief". "You owe me an apology," Williams said, arguing about the violation. "Williams, who was fined $17,000 for the three code violations, said after the match that male players were held to a lower standard for court conduct.At the time, Knight - who has a reputation for controversial cartoons  - said the uproar over the caricature was a sign that the "world has just gone crazy". "The Council considers that the cartoon uses exaggeration and absurdity to make its point, but accepts the publisher's claim that it does not depict Ms Williams as an ape, rather showing her as 'spitting the dummy', a non-racist caricature familiar to most Australian readers," the council said, using an Australian phase for a child having a temper tantrum. The media watchdog did acknowledge that some readers found the illustration offensive, but added that there was "sufficient public interest in commenting on behaviour and sportsmanship during a significant dispute between a tennis player with a globally high profile and an umpire at the US Open final".Williams, who was vying to equal Australian player Margaret Court's record of 24 grand slam singles titles, lost in straight sets to the 20-year-old Japanese-Haitian in New York after a Serena Williams attempts at white shaming backfired astoundingly , Mark Knight’s cartoon is cleared of racism by the board . It seems she is just a bad tempered rich spoilt brat woman . "I have never cheated in my life! It seems she is just a bad tempered rich spoilt brat woman . Mark Knight's caricature of tennis star printed in Herald Sun did not breach media standards, Australian watchdog says.A controversial cartoon of American tennis star Serena Williams The artwork, published in the Melbourne-based Herald Sun tabloid newspaper on September 10, showed Williams as over-weight, big-lipped and bushy-haired, stomping on her broken tennis racket with a baby pacifier on the ground as the umpire asked her US Open final opponent Naomi Osaka, "Can you just let her win? A Herald Sun cartoon that depicted Serena Williams jumping in the air and “spitting the dummy” after losing a match to Naomi Osaka was not racist, the Press Council has found. "The cartoon about Serena is about her poor behaviour on the day, not about race," he said.The Herald Sun, a conservative tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, Williams smashed her racquet and called the umpire a 'thief' and a 'liar' during the US Open final [Danielle Parhizkaran/USA TODAY SPORTS/Reuters] One of the people to criticise the cartoon last year was Bernice King, the chief executive of the King Center and daughter of Martin Luther King Jr, who said the Herald Sun’s stance was “without consideration for the painful historical context of such imagery and how it can support biases and racism today”.Author JK Rowling said the Knight drawing had reduced “one of the greatest sportswomen alive to racist and sexist tropes”.Complainants to the council had said that the depiction was a sexist and racist stereotype of African-Americans, with its large lips, broad flat nose and wild afro-styled ponytail hairstyle.They said it contrasted with Osaka, a Japanese-Haitian, who was depicted as a white woman with blonde hair and no exaggerated features.The media watchdog said cartoonists used exaggeration and absurdity to make a point and accepted the paper’s claim that it did not depict Williams as an ape but rather as spitting the dummy, “a non-racist caricature familiar to most Australian readers”.The Press Council did acknowledge that some readers found the cartoon offensive but ultimately said its standards of not causing offence or prejudice were not breached.In first year in the job, editor seems to have recanted most things his paper was known forFormer broadcaster and politician says TV in particular is ‘self-congratulating’Hit from 1946 now criticised for portrayal of African-Americans in post-slavery periodPlayers who took part in the Enough campaign for a 24-hour social media boycott in protest at online racial abuse received further insults in response to their posts, the PFA has revealed I couldn’t sleep’UK media tokenistic in its attitude to diversity, says Trevor PhillipsDisney Plus streaming site will not offer 'racist' Song of the South filmFootballers supporting Enough campaign subjected to racist abuseLeon Mann: ‘We need people in power to show they care about diversity’CBBC sitcom about British Chinese family accused of racismEx-Fox News host says its reputation for racism is 'for very good reason''You all know who you are': Romelu Lukaku speaks out on racism in the media – video © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Serena Williams attempts at white shaming backfired astoundingly , Mark Knight’s cartoon is cleared of racism by the board . All rights reserved. Herald Sun newspaper’s depiction of player ‘spitting the dummy’ at US Open had been widely condemned“[The Herald Sun] said it was depicting the moment when, in a highly animated tantrum, Ms Williams smashed a racquet and loudly abused the chair umpire, calling him a thief, a liar and threatening that he would never umpire her matches again,” the council said.“It said it wanted to capture the on-court tantrum of Ms Williams using satire, caricature, exaggeration and humour, and the cartoon intended to depict her behaviour as childish by showing her spitting a pacifier out while she jumps up and down.”@Knightcartoons cartoon is not racist or sexist .... it rightly mocks poor behavior by a tennis legend ... Mark has the full support of everyone The Murdoch press has strongly defended Knight and his cartoon.