News Outlets Are Censoring Images of Cartoons That May Have Incited Charlie Hebdo Attack

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/01/07/charlie_hebdo_cartoons_self_censorship_by_several_major_outlets.html

The French magazine Charlie Hebdo was attacked this morning by gunmen, possibly al-Qaida members, who were apparently upset by its history of printing cartoons mocking radical Islam. While much of the response to the attack has celebrated the notion of freedom of speech and freedom of the press, some news outlets have chosen to self-censor images of controversial Charlie Hebdo cartoons.

From the New York Daily News:




The original image:



From the U.K. Telegraph:




An image from what appears to be the original photo shoot:




An image of a Charlie Hebdo cover just displayed on CNN was blurred. A just-broadcast segment about Charlie Hebdo's history of controversy on the network itself did not display any images of the cartoons. The CNN International site's story on Charlie Hebdo likewise does not display the cartoons.*

The Al-Jazeera America network has blurred images of the magazine during its coverage.

Outlets including Gawker, Vox, and the Free Beacon have reprinted a number of uncensored Charlie Hebdo covers.

[enlightenment]

1. According to one of the BBC reports (website)

one of the Egyptian papers ran a series of the cartoons today, in response to the bombing. Not all and perhaps not the most inflammatory (though I'm uncertain what offends whom and why . . .) - but they ran them.

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/news/details/623371







edited to change who to whom . . .

[Nye Bevan]

2. Heckler's veto. Or should I say, murderers' veto. (nt)

[Ykcutnek]

3. Cowards.

One and all.

[Fred Sanders]

4. The explicit, sexually themed ones should not be displayed any further than need be.

The posts reposting The Rude Pundit's links show some of these cartoons, which are on Gawker.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Why not? I think they should be everywhere and now they will be.

Not only that, but there will be an endless stream of such artwork. Because fuck them.