'Charlie Hebdo' Editor Criticizes U.S. Media for Refusing to Show Cover

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Okay, I get the idea that there's no point in rubbing it in, but why not at least show the cover with a qualifier saying that the staff and management do not neccessarily agree with the content ?

As newspaper Charlie Hebdo prints a record 7 million print run, editor-in-chief Gerard Biard is slamming U.S. media for refusing to show the cover of the latest issue, in an interview with NBC News.

"This cartoon is not just a little figure. It's a symbol. It's the symbol of freedom of speech, of freedom of religion, of democracy and secularism," he told Meet the Press host Chuck Toddon Sunday. "When they refuse to publish this cartoon, when they blur it out, when they decline to publish it, they blur out democracy.

Several American news organizations — including channels ABC, CNN, and NBC along with the Associated Press, The New York Times and The Hollywood Reporter — have not shown what has been billed the "survivors' issue" cover featuring a cartoon drawing of Islam's Muhammad. CBS News, meanwhile, did show the cover image during broadcasting on multiple platforms.

Some publishers have also restricted publication in some parts of the world. The Economist published the picture in its U.S., U.K. and European editions, but the space was left blank in the edition printed in Singapore, adding a note directing readers to a web page where they could view the cover if they wished.

"We do not kill anyone," Biard said. "We must stop conflating the murderers and the victims. We must stop declaring that those who write and draw are provocateurs, that they are throwing gas on the fire. We must not place thinkers and artists in the same category as murders."




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Charlie Hebdo Editor Criticizes U.S. Media for Refusing to Show Cover - Yahoo News
 
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France Arrests a Comedian For His Facebook Comments, Showing the Sham of the West’s “Free Speech” Celebration
By Glenn Greenwald
The Intercept

January 16, 2015



Forty-eight hours after hosting a massive march under the banner of free expression, France opened a criminal investigation of a controversial French comedian for a Facebook post he wrote about the Charlie Hebdo attack, and then this morning, arrested him for that post on charges of “defending terrorism.” The comedian, Dieudonné (above), previously sought elective office in France on what he called an “anti-Zionist” platform, has had his show banned by numerous government officials in cities throughout France, and has been criminally prosecuted several times before for expressing ideas banned in that country."
 
We have a presidunce so far up terrorist ass he can count their teeth. You won't find criticism of the attack here.
 
We have a presidunce so far up terrorist ass he can count their teeth. You won't find criticism of the attack here.
WTF does Obama have to do with what the media chooses to publish? You are just an ignorant racist. Aren't you supposed to be sucking your Grand Wizards cock - as the KKK whore of Appalachia?
 
From the Hebdo editor's article...

Several American news organizations — including channels ABC, CNN, and NBC along with the Associated Press, The New York Times and The Hollywood Reporter — have not shown what has been billed the "survivors' issue" cover featuring a cartoon drawing of Islam's Muhammad. CBS News, meanwhile, did show the cover image during broadcasting on multiple platforms.

CBS maybe grown some testicles?
 


France Arrests a Comedian For His Facebook Comments, Showing the Sham of the West’s “Free Speech” Celebration
By Glenn Greenwald
The Intercept

January 16, 2015



Forty-eight hours after hosting a massive march under the banner of free expression, France opened a criminal investigation of a controversial French comedian for a Facebook post he wrote about the Charlie Hebdo attack, and then this morning, arrested him for that post on charges of “defending terrorism.” The comedian, Dieudonné (above), previously sought elective office in France on what he called an “anti-Zionist” platform, has had his show banned by numerous government officials in cities throughout France, and has been criminally prosecuted several times before for expressing ideas banned in that country."


WTF?
 
WTF does Obama have to do with what the media chooses to publish? You are just an ignorant racist. Aren't you supposed to be sucking your Grand Wizards cock - as the KKK whore of Appalachia?

I thought Senator Robert Byrd, democrat, WV died?
 

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