I want that image removed imediately! It looks too much like a swirly-cone, and is an insult to ice cream!
Posted on 02/08/2006 12:30:10 PM PST by summer
NEW YORK-- A relatively small daily newspaper in Victorville, Calif., is one of the few in the U.S. to run one of the Muhammad cartoons sparking riots and killings abroad.
Don Holland, the editor of the Freedom Communications Inc. paper, the Daily Press, explains in a column today, "I'm sure most Americans are curious about this controversial cartoon, which depicts the Muslim prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban.
"The mindless violence by Islamic radicals is par for the course. But what is incredible is that the Associated Press, which distributes news stories and photos from across the globe, has decided that you shouldn't see it."
The Daily Press has a daily circulation just under 31,000.
The point is not whether the cartoon is offensive or not," Holland writes. "The point is that it is part of a worldwide news story. ...
"What is offensive is that AP fancies itself to be the guardian of good taste for thousands of American newspapers rather than letting individual newspapers make that decision.
"AP's philosophy also strikes at the heart of a free press and the elementary principles of libertarian thought -- that individuals have the God-given right to read what they please and decide for themselves what is and isn't offensive. ...
"Years ago, the Daily Press received numerous calls when we published a photo of victims of the Rwandan genocide. Certainly that was a newsworthy, albeit disturbing, image.
"The source of the riots and mayhem is not a cartoon. It is growing friction in a clash of cultures."
E&P Staff (letters@editorandpublisher.com)
Has anyone noticed that the muslims aren't upset because the cartoon is INCORRECT, just that he was duplicated. So it's not untrue that Mohammed was a man who thought, lived and breathed murder and violence, just don't DRAW him.
"Why blame the AP? They are a wire service, but they don't control what papers do or do not print."
Where do you think papers get their internationall news? If the NY Times does not print it and the AP does not carry it, it is not news according to most of the old media.
RE your post #23 -- I think you're right.
I want that image removed imediately! It looks too much like a swirly-cone, and is an insult to ice cream!
LOL...
FYI, today's WSJ published artwork featuring Mohammed's image.
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