Remember back during the Mohammed cartoon outrage, when news outlets, newspapers, television shows, and magazines wouldn’t show the cartoons because they “didn’t want to offend Muslims?” Well, here’s a few quotes in case you don’t remember…
For example, from CNN:
“CNN has chosen to not show the cartoons in respect for Islam.”
“CNN is not showing the negative caricatures of the likeness of Prophet Mohammed because the network believes its role is to cover the events surrounding the publication of the cartoons while not unnecessarily adding fuel to the controversy itself.”
And a few other examples, courtesy of CSN:
“They wouldn’t meet our standards for what we publish in the paper,” said Leonard Downie, Jr., executive editor of The Washington Post, which ran a front-page story on the issue Friday, but has not published the cartoons. “We have standards about language, religious sensitivity, racial sensitivity and general good taste.” …
At USA Today, deputy foreign editor Jim Michaels offered a similar explanation. “At this point, I’m not sure there would be a point to it,” he said about publishing the cartoons. “We have described them, but I am not sure running it would advance the story.” Although he acknowledged that the cartoons have news value, he said the offensive nature overshadows that.
The Boston Globe, while acknowledging the right of newspapers to print material that may offend, argues that “newspapers ought to refrain from publishing offensive caricatures of Mohammed in the name of the ultimate Enlightenment value: tolerance.”
So, if that’s the case, if all these “news” organizations won’t print those Mohammed cartoons in the name of “tolerance,” why is it ok for them to fawn over a sculpture of Jesus made out of chocolate? As Michelle Malkin points out:
“Chocolate Jesus” is on Fox, MSNBC, and ABC. And CNN. And all over the web.
Hypocrisy from the media? Imagine that. Or, perhaps, just perhaps…it could be that they know they can print or show anything they want about Christianity without the fear of violent outrage, rioting, or death from hands of thousands of radical extremists? Hmm…who’s the Religion of Peace™?
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