Mass Shooting At Newspaper In Paris

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...1e9c8c-96bc-11e4-8005-1924ede3e54a_story.html

Washington Post editorial page is going to publish cartoon that caused the firebombing.

And an interesting kicker to that article.

 

In its breaking news coverage of the Paris killings at Charlie Hebdo magazine, “Fox & Friends,” the morning show of Fox News, showed a shot of one of the magazine’s controversial cartoons. Yet the network, according to a spokeswoman, has “no plans” to show further examples. Fox News’s decision falls in line with those of other cable news outlets. As reported earlier here and here, CNN has cropped out the provocative drawings from its coverage of the killings. And in an extensive rundown of the news media’s approach to the matter, Rosie Gray and Ellie Hall of BuzzFeed note this policy at the NBC family: “Our NBC News Group Standards team has sent guidance to NBC News, MSNBC, and CNBC not to show headlines or cartoons that could be viewed as insensitive or offensive.”

Here’s what’s actually “insensitive”: To attempt an explanation of what may have prompted these killings without showing what may have prompted these killings.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...s-has-no-plans-to-air-charlie-hebdo-cartoons/

 

“But here’s my editor’s dilemma. Every principle I hold tells me to print them . . . what right do I have to risk the lives of my staff to make a point?”

OK. So, one editor admits his reason for not publishing is fear.

At least he's honest. Hard to respect the outlets that say it's purely an editorial decision to not publish offensive material.

 

In the Internet age, you also have to weigh the already widespread availability of these images when making your risk-benefit analysis.

 

Latest news has the two suspects robbing a gas station in northern France.

Taking into account that, of course, they're completely insane, it's weird that their getaway has been reduced to this. No plan to go out in a hail of gunfire at the newspaper offices but no quick and speedy transport out of the country either.

 

Yeah, the Mossad is really slipping in their game-planning.

 

LOL. Newspapers are fighting for their own livelihood, and you justify the decision to not publish by arguing readers could find the images elsewhere?

That's the problem in a nutshell.

 

‘Je suis Charlie’. It’s a phrase in every newspaper, in every Twitter feed, on demonstrations in cities across Europe. The expressions of solidarity with those slain in the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices are impressive. They are also too late. Had journalists and artists and political activists taken a more robust view on free speech over the past 20 years then we may never have come to this.

Instead, they have helped create a new culture of self-censorship. Partly, it is a question of fear, an unwillingness to take the kind of risks that the editors of Charlie Hebdo courted, and for which they have paid such a heavy price.

https://kenanmalik.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/je-suis-charlie-its-a-bit-late/

 

Do we agree with that? That the problem is that we just haven't reasoned enough with radical Islamists about this issue the last 20 years?

 

"The last 20 years" is a bit too wide of a timeframe to blame this on Obama, though. So that's a no-go.

 

That sounds pretty compelling to me.

 

That is correct. They feel they are in line with the teaching in the Qur'an .

Qur'an - 008:012
"I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them"

It is what the Qur'an says.

Qur'an - 005:033
"The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement"