Comments on: The Danes stand fast on the cartoons; MSM wobbles

By: Alan Furman

Alan Furman — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 22:07:56 +0000

On the other hand, I was surprised to learn that the Philadelphia Inquirer — much closer to CNN’s political orientation than Fox’s — had published the cartoons. Apparently, guts are not evenly distributed in the media.

By: Alan Furman

Alan Furman — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 21:33:13 +0000

Meryl Yourish invokes the standard capitalist greed template:

Even in the video clip, CNN refuses to show the cartoons. Spinelessness, driven by market share. Gotta love the Corporate News Network.

Or is it Political Correctness?

Clue #1: Fox News Channel showed one of the cartoons (sufficient for a death sentence under Sharia). They are hardly indifferent to market share; however, they don’t subscribe to PC.

Clue #2: Dhimmi News Network (at one time owned by Jane Fonda’s squeeze) having had its lunch eaten by Fox because of its left-wing bias, now relies heavily on viewership outside the USA, where Bush Derangement Syndrome reigns. In other words, it panders to the smugly anti-corporate.

Clue #3: If “corporate” profit-greed is the problem, then insulating a news organization from it would be the solution, and NPR would be the gold standard of TRVTH. Need I say more?

And finally a word from Mark Steyn:

[NBC], in its coverage of the global riots over the Danish cartoons, has declined to show any of the offending artwork out of “respect” for the Muslim faith.

Which means out of respect for their ability to locate the executive vice president’s home in the suburbs and firebomb his garage.

Though this may be self-interested and none too courageous, it goes a bit beyond “market share.”

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 03:54:24 +0000

I’m going to have an essay up tomorrow on what I think the Muslim riots across Europe and the Middle East mean.

By: Venture

Venture — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 23:39:04 +0000

Put Mohammad on the $1 dollar bill. Then see if the oil sheiks will still take our money.

I flatly predict this would reveal exactly how venerated Mohammed is in Middle Eastern society.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 17:35:00 +0000

The NY Times has a photo of Iranian women burning an =Israeli= flag in response to the Danish cartoons. Perhaps the Iranians have discovered evidence that the Danes are one of the 10 lost tribes of Israel?

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 17:24:21 +0000

Will be interesting to see whether the Islamist overreaction to the Danish cartoons will produce a substantial European acceptance of Meryl’s “The Jews are the world’s canary in a coal mine” thesis. (It certainly looks like a validation from these shores.) If not, it’s a near-certainty that there will be some further overreach — in the form of an even more outrageous attempt to impose Islamic sensibilities on a Western polity — within the next 12-18 months, so I’m confident that the proof of Meryl’s thesis is a matter of when, not if.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 17:23:23 +0000

Will be interesting to see whether the Islamist overreaction to the Danish cartoons will produce a substantial European acceptance of Meryl’s “The Jews are the world’s canary in a coal mine” thesis. (It certainly looks like a validation from these shores.) If not, it’s a near-certainty that there will be some further overreach — in the form of an attempt to impose Islamic sensibilities on a Western polity — within the next 12-18 months, so I’m confident that the proof of Meryl’s thesis is a matter of when, not if.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 06:00:30 +0000

CNN, one remembers, was whitewashing stories from its Iraq bureau in order to protect its people.

Same shit, different year.

By: Holger

Holger — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:25:52 +0000

Go to http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/freespeech1 to sign a petition in support of Denmark.

By: mikeski

mikeski — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 21:07:59 +0000

And, as if on cue, our State Department comes down firmly on the wrong side:

http://instapundit.com/archives/028399.php