Fox, CNN, NBC won’t show Charlie Hebdo Muhammad cartoons
I
don’t see them attached to this Washington Post piece, either. The
entire mainstream media is capitulating to jihadist intimidation instead
of standing up for the freedom of speech — which freedom, accordingly,
is not long for this world.“Fox News has ‘no plans’ to air Charlie Hebdo cartoons,” by Erik Wemple, Washington Post, January 7, 2015:
In its breaking news coverage of the Paris killings at Charlie Hebdo magazine, “Fox & Friends,” the morning show of Fox News, showed a shot of one of the magazine’s controversial cartoons. Yet the network, according to a spokeswoman, has “no plans” to show further examples. Fox News’s decision falls in line with those of other cable news outlets. As reported earlier here and here, CNN has cropped out the provocative drawings from its coverage of the killings. And in an extensive rundown of the news media’s approach to the matter, Rosie Gray and Ellie Hall of BuzzFeed note this policy at the NBC family: “Our NBC News Group Standards team has sent guidance to NBC News, MSNBC, and CNBC not to show headlines or cartoons that could be viewed as insensitive or offensive.”…
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