Posted on 02/10/2006 8:55:52 AM PST by VoodooEconomics
Last week the publication I work for, the German newsweekly Die Zeit, printed one of the controversial caricatures of the prophet Muhammad. It was the right thing to do.
When the cartoons were first published in Denmark in September, nobody in Germany took notice. Had our publication been offered the drawings at that point, in all likelihood we would have declined to print them. At least one of them seems to equate Islam with radical Islamism. That is exactly the direction nobody wants the debate about fundamentalism to take -- even though the very nature of a political cartoon is overstatement. We would not have printed the caricature out of a sense of moderation and respect for the Muslim minority in our country. News people make judgments about taste all the time. We do not show sexually explicit pictures or body parts after a terrorist attack. We try to keep racism and anti-Semitism out of the paper. Freedom of the press comes with a responsibility.
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"Freedom of the press comes with a responsibility."
So does breathing air. What's your point, Kraut-boy?
More hypocrisy from the press. These guys are such cowards. The ONLY reason they are not printing the cartoons is FEAR....they have no problem slandering anyone who does not pose a threat to them.
methinks the point is that US papers do not seem to be joining the fray and publishing these cartoons??
Comes with responsibility? What CRAP.
Look at the left - right now there are two films up for Oscars that CELEBRATE terrorists (Munich and Paradise Now.) Since when has the left EVER cared about "responsibility" for anyone that agreed with them?
Whereas I tend to be intolerant towards tolerance...
"methinks the point is that US papers do not seem to be joining the fray and publishing these cartoons??"
Yeah, I know. That can't make our press look good in a lot of people's eyes. Especially those who are used to having their own religous figures lampooned from time to time in the same press.
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