Comments on: Drawing Fire

[brucesmall]

I agree with not publishing the cartoons before they were news, but once they became a world-wide story you have an obligation to keep us informed by publishing them. Your excuses for not publishing are lame, especially when one thinks of what you have rushed to publish in the past, oh, like fake letters at election time. The difficulty is you are trying to appease a special interest group that is trying to force its rules on the rest of the world.

[sanfelz]

Surely there are news items that reasonable people can decide not to present in an inflammatory manner. Should the media show videos of hostages? Most sporting events do not show disruptive fans so as not to publicize and not to encourage the looneys. Fanatics are undesirable in every religion and every nation. Unless, of course, you are a blind-faith believer. Seems to be as many here as elesewhere.

[jwismer922]

Whatever Peter Baldwin: Should we accept 9/11 & 7/7 as offerings of peace from the Islamic World?

[peterbaldwin-2009]

The anencephalic, goosestepping, Republican trolls are out in force today, obediently following Rumsfeld's cue that the "military option is not off the table". As in the case of gaining back our evaporating civil liberties, Our Congress has been relegated to the sidelines after losing, or shall we say giving up, it's warmaking powers and now does not even need to be asked about King George's next military adventure. The march to war is gaining steam, with Karl Rove's fingerprints all over it, while North Korea's nuclear ambitions are flushed down the memory hole along with the Mars expdition (memory hole allusion stolen from P. Krugman). The cartoons are a Rovian creation to warm up the bloodthirsty warriors who will undoubtedly be sitting safely on the sidelines again with their calcium challenged leader.

The pictures are great at http://www.earnedmedia.org/cws0205.htm

[jwismer922]

I have a cartoon for you CBS... A monkey with a CBS logo on its belly, and a Islamic Imam playing a music box and holding a gun, saying dance monkey dance.

[jwismer922]

well said freed K, well stated.

[freedk-2009]

While I admit to being critical of the news media, you people have reached a new low. Your excuses are weak. Because the images can be found elsewhere on the web is the very reason you in the media have a responsibility to publish them. How do we know that what we find on the web is the same thing as what the riots are about? The only thing you media people provide for us is legitimacy (and granted, that has been in short supply) or at the very least, an authority to stand behind a version of the facts. All else is rumor and hearsay. Only one paper in all of the "Land of the Free" would publish these cartoons? You people are cowards.

[cera13]

Islamic tradition says you can't have representations of muhammed, so fine then they don't have to make, look at or even acknowledge them and that's fine. But if they think that their law applies to everyone, including those who aren't muslim, then they are dead wrong. That is what is called FREEDOM, it gives those who have a different opinion to voice them, even if some don't like the message. So to the Muslins of the world, relax it's only a cartoon, it's only the opinion of some, and lighten up! Geeze!

[jwismer922]

If you want to go to a real debate follow this link: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2006/02/cartoon_controversy_to_publish.html