Missed It: Christopher Hitchens Slams Editors for Not Publishing Danish Cartoons

This profile of the essayist Christopher Hitchens indicates that a part of his speech to the American Society of Magazine Editors at a recent luncheon involved him lambasting the group's members that refused to publish the caricatures of Muhammed as part of their coverage of 2006's Danish Cartoons Controversy, an objection to those cartoons that drove riots, political turmoil and economic retaliation. As much as I feel the original publication of the caricatures was needlessly provocative and ineptly managed, I agree with Hitchens that the subsequent decision by many publications not to fulfill their primary obligation to educate and inform when the nature of those caricatures was at issue around the world should be seen as a critical failure on their part, and was largely driven by fear as opposed to a competing principle.
 
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