Flemming Rose On The Circuit

As suspected when he showed up in Colorado earlier this week, Jyllands-Posten editor Flemming Rose has apparently hit the lecture circuit. This article talks about an appearance at Georgetown.

I haven't heard or read all of Rose's remarks, but his suggestion that critics are out there saying they should have known what would have happened rings kind of false to me. I haven't read anyone suggesting that, which makes me think it's not exactly widespread. I myself agree with Rose they could not have known the response, which is yet another reason, in my opinion, why it's bad for journalists to get into the provocation business above and beyond the provocation that comes in the course of reporting the news as effectively and thoroughly as possible.

In related news, Ahmed Sheikh of Al-Jazeera talks a bit about in this interview how his news organization covered the riots. It includes his decision not to run the cartoons, despite the fact that they were news, which is sort of interesting to contrast with his statement about digging into a speech of the Pope's he thought was newsworthy.
 
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