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» Danish Cartoons & Abu Ghraib Photos — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:21:41 +0000

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By: The Jawa Report

The Jawa Report — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 20:12:23 +0000

Abu Ghraib and Cartoon Jihad...

Ladies and gentleman, I am proud to call Dr. Leopold Stotch a good friend:there are many people in America and elsewhere in the West are making statements about how the media should self-censor and not publish the Danish cartoons that......

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:07:16 +0000

The difference is that the Abu Ghraib photos had the potential to hurt the Bush administration and made the job of our military harder, thus more likely to fail. The Danish cartoons don't seem to have the potential to hurt Bush and MSM editors may face personal fatwahs for publishing them.

So to sum up, free speech is good if it can be used to hurt Bush and is not to be worried about if it involves any potential danger to the media elite.

By: dutchmarbel

dutchmarbel — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:35:07 +0000

I think the difference is that the publication of the pictures is not solely and deliberatedly to insult and provoce, but to bear witness of things that happened and make sure the people responsible are punished.

You are aware that there are more pictures of Abu G'hraib, that were not publiced because they might cause uproar (Rumsfeld gave the explanation I think). The US government was sued, the judges decided that they should be made public according to American laws, and the government is still blocking that. Not many - if any - people who now say that the cartoons should be published to prove our press freedom (a point I disagree with but that is not without merit) protest that those pictures should be publised. Yet their newsvalue is much bigger.

Tnxs for phrasing it correctly btw: most 'opposers' don't feel that the papers are not entitled to publishing them, but feel that they should refrain from doing so themselves. I read a christian based newspaper that would not do it, and I am glad they don't.