Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* Reason leads us to the late Western Standard's still very much with us publisher Ezra Levant and his running afoul of the Alberta Human Rights Commission because of his publication publishing the Danish cartoons a couple of years a back. I'd really suggest taking a couple of minutes and clicking through to Levant's blog if this story and its outcomes hold any interest for you at this point.

No matter what you think of the circumstances of their original publication, and I've been critical of that action, re-publishing the cartoons when they became world news was in every instance I know about the fulfillment of a basic journalistic responsibility. In my judgment, the only way for people to learn about the cartoons was in their being seen; how they looked and what they communicated was at issue. I mean, I believe Levant and everyone else should have had the right to publish the cartoons even if they were doing so to simply be jerks, but the fact that Western Standard appears to have been doing what a journalistic entity should -- provide their readers with the best information about issues of immediacy and importance -- makes what's happening here 100 times more unfortunate.

* meanwhile, the former deputy editor of a newspaper near or in Minsk, now banned because of the Muhammed cartoons being published in the paper and some unrelated actions regarding government officials, faces charges.

* Voice of America profiles a new book that looks at the Danish Cartoons and other such incidents using cartoons as the access point.
 
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