[lit-ideas] Re: Link to "Mohammed" cartoons
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:54:42 +0000 (GMT)
--- Andreas Ramos <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I don't quite understand this point: the "free
> > speech" defence of publishing the cartoons is in
> fact
> > a very US one.
>
> The US press response has been "we don't want to
> offend the Arabs". Of some 5,000
> newspapers, only four or five minor papers have
> printed the cartoons. None of the major
> papers have printed them.
I agree with this -- our newspapers have been somewhat
like this too, though.
. The US press has been cowed
> into submission.
Ours hasn't so there's more at work here.
Judy Evans, Cardiff
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