The most prophetic post of the month

Tim Blair on Feb. 4: "They won’t publish cartoons, but they will run anything they can get out of Abu Ghraib. Both sets of images provoke Islamic anger; note how the media behaves when that anger is directed at them."

For the record, I think the media has every right to run the latest pictures from Abu Ghraib (many available here, via Andrew Sullivan). If the United States is failing to abide by its own standards in how prisoners are treated, that right could even be called a duty.

But CNN, Reuters, Salon and almost every other major American, Canadian and British media outlet has no right to pat itself on the back for being so "brave". They lost that right when they refused to show us a bunch of cartoons.

Posted by damian at February 16, 2006 06:58 PM | TrackBack