Cartoons

I was able to find all the Mohammed cartoons on blogs, and at internet encyclopedias. I still however think it is completely fucked that the mainstream news sources don't publish these images along with their published articles on the controversy. It is usually standard to include a pic of "hate graffiti", burning flags, and so on, that triggered the racial/political tensions de jour. For example, they print the offending poem that suggests the Jews where behind 9-11, they print the speech by Farrakhan that insults white folk, and they print the stupidity that comes out of Pat Robertson's mouth. The self-censorship in this instance really is toothless journalism. Embassies have been burnt, people have received death threats, and riots have been organized, ostensibly on account of these little cartoons and CNN and FOX News won't publish them. I realize they are just stupid cartoons, and this isn't a refusal to publish a Rushdie novel or anything, but shit, these "news sources" ought to show some solidarity with the editors who have been fired, and the newspapers who are being threatened.

Yeah, I am certainly not taking a new or original stance on this issue. I just think its a no brainer: Free Press should always be supported.