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Mon, 12 Jan 2015 01:37:29 +0000

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Sun, 11 Jan 2015 18:16:04 +0000

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By: gitarcarver

gitarcarver — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 20:54:22 +0000

The President of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue, has a different take on why the cartoons were not run or seen in the mainstream media:

The cartoonists, and all those associated with Charlie Hebdo, are no champions of freedom. Quite the opposite: their obscene portrayal of religious figures—so shocking that not a single TV station or mainstream newspaper would show them—represents an abuse of freedom.

source: http://www.catholicleague.org/charlie-hebdo-perverts-freedom/

In my opinion, that’s an “interesting” (although totally irrational) reading of the decisions the media made.

By: Turk

Turk — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 18:44:17 +0000

The images in that NYT piece fall far short of the “could it get us killed?”

1. That is why I qualified my comment.

2. More importantly, in attempting to answer that question, you are trying to use logical thought. Those that commit these types of crimes do not think the way you and I do. To some, our very existence as non-Muslim (and in addition, not their particular flavor of Muslim) marks us for death as infidels. We see this with regularity in fundamentalist- based bombings in Iraq, Pakistan and Yemen.

Did the NYT take a risk? Not by my standard or yours, but by the standards of some extremists?

By: Publish or perish … | prior probability

Publish or perish … | prior probability — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 18:24:16 +0000

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By: Walter Olson

Walter Olson — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 18:06:37 +0000

The images in that NYT piece fall far short of the “could it get us killed?” test that many lesser news orgs passed. I’ve been active today on Twitter on this topic (@walterolson) but will not try to post all the links here, but here is one from the CJR on how many digital outlets have been willing to run the cartoons, while legacy/old media outlets mostly have not:

http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/charlie_hebdo_cartoons.php?page=1

By: Turk

Turk — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:44:07 +0000

The NYT did, kinda, sorta, though clearly not in the way many would advocate:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/world/europe/charlie-hebdo-broke-taboos-defying-threats-and-violence.html

By: Nous Sommes Charlie, But Who Are You? | Simple Justice

Nous Sommes Charlie, But Who Are You? | Simple Justice — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 11:56:37 +0000

[…] They say they want free expression, but they refuse to take any personal risk for it. Let Charlie Hebdo take the risk. Let the people at Charlie Hebdo die. They will weap over their deaths, but they won’t show the courage to stand up against the murders. Who? […]