She seems to think it's hypocritical for the WaPo and CNN to be unwilling to publish the cartoons Jyllands-Posten ran last year out of "sensitivity" and a supposed reluctance to provoke, and at the same time publish old -- yet newly released -- photos from Abu Ghraib.
ST quotes Washington Post's Editorial Page editor Fred Hiatt, in his own publication: "Why reprint something you know will offend many of your readers?” Sister Toldja appears to believe that there might have been people offended by those photos, perhaps?
Her blockquote of CNN's statement on the cartoons, too, was pithy:
CNN is not showing the negative caricatures of the likeness of the Prophet Mohammed because the network believes its role is to cover the events surrounding the publication of the cartoons while not unnecessarily adding fuel to the controversy itself.
She followed it with a nice link to their page, where the prison pix are posted.
I'm afraid Sister T doesn't understand the subtlety of their arguments: Neither CNN nor the WaPo has any desire to inflame the Muslim community against them, so they won't print anything to incite Islamatics to burn down their offices and hang their people in effigy or behead them in person. On the other hand, inciting people against the US government -- especially now that it is predominantly Republican -- is their stock and trade.
There's no double-standard there. There's only double talk. She should be used to hearing that from them, by now.
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Nice distinction!
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