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2006-10-09

Meta-meta-meta-censorship

The New York Times has managed to not only censor themselves about censorship, but to do it in a story about censorship.

The article ironically notes:
Many, but not all, newspapers were frightened away from publication of the Muhammad cartoons. But the cartoons, and other images of Muhammad, can be found all over the Internet, as individual users decide for themselves whether or not they will abide by the Islamic restrictions on Muhammad imagery.

Yes, many newspapers were frightened to publish the Mohammed cartoons. But the article fails to note that one of the papers “frightened away from publication” was the New York Times — the very paper in which the article itself appears. As this FIRE article explained:

On February 7, Times editor Bill Keller told USA Today that publishing the Mohammed cartoons would be “perceived as a particularly deliberate insult” by Muslims, and that, moreover, not publishing them “feels like the right thing to do.”

To recap, as Rick Ellensburg might say: it’s an article about appeasing Muslims by censoring ideas — in a paper that appeased Muslims by censoring ideas. And, the article censors the fact that it appeased Muslims by censoring ideas.

Censorship isn't enough for these guys, and neither is meta-censorship. They've gotta fall all over themselves to make sure they don't upset any radical islamists by even admitting that they soft-pedaled information that might have upset them. And all this in a story where they click their tongues about how YouTube was cleaning up some politically awkward content.

What bold journalists! Determined to present all the news that’s fit to print (so long as it doesn’t upset people who don’t like us anyway).

I’m repeatedly shocked at how hard some elements of the Lamestream Media seem to be working on behalf of our enemies, when freedom of the press is one of the first things a global Caliphate would take away. (Along with making homosexuality a capital offense, but that’s a different topic.)

[via Patterico]

Related post: The future of news

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