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February 16, 2006


Your Daily Danish Cartoons Update

* It's relatively quiet today after some two weeks of international protests traceable back to cartoons depicting Muhammed in a Danish newspaper. That Indonesian boycott story is still up top and that's 24 hours old. So cross your fingers.

* Mea gulp-a department: yesterday I linked to something from a site that could have the alternate name "WemakeshitupaboutNorway.com" regarding that fine country insitituting a blasphemy law. This article has a more accurate picture. Thanks to Tor Ivar Bjonness for the catch.

* Jyllands-Posten editor Flemming Rose restates his case that the original cartoons were there to foster dialogue. Considering the tenor of the "dialogue" as it's developed, one imagines Rose might apply the same argument to Moe slapping Larry in the back of the head. Tracking down the other vocal J-P editor, one finds Carsten Juste arguing forcefully that the worldwide media was exposed through its special treatment of Muslim opponents of the cartoons.

* Art Spiegelman was interviewed on the general subject.

* There are few articles still out there about the mini-crisis of conscience in American newspaper editorial meetings about whether to publish or not. The best one is something at Editors Weblog that tracks among other things the number of newspaper editors outside of Europe that published the cartoons, a group about the size of a slightly bigger than average Mark Evanier-moderated panel at the San Diego Con. Other articles include a Rockford, Illinois paper explaining why they didn't publish. The Detroit Free Press reminds its readers of the potential wider agendas involved. A Charlotte paper goes wider, too, but with context and not agenda through a look at various depictions throughout history, and student newspapers make a special case for publishing the cartoons based on their niche role.

* Danish troops are still welcome in Iraq. There was some doubt.

* Even the birds are pissed at Denmark. Okay, not really. Good to see something make google's front page for "Danish" that's not a protest or boycott, even if it is death from the skies.

* Comic Book Bin weighs in with a feature article.
 
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