Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* hackers attacked the site selling prints of Kurt Westergaard's bomb-in-turban cartoon.

* I will never in a hundred years understand Flemming Rose's continued justifications for the initial publication of the Danish Cartoons. While the refusal of newspapers and other media organizations to publish the cartoons when what those cartoons looked like became a crucial, international news issue was clearly awful and disappointing on a billion levels, and we hosted them here as early as November 2005, I've always held that the initial publication was an action that had nothing to do with fulfilling journalistic principle despite occasional, specifics-free assertions to the contrary such as Rose gives in the linked-to article. It's hard for me to stomach the further assertion that this was a typical enterprise, and I flat-out disagree that any of these assertions should obviate that decision from criticism.

* the US will join several other countries in boycotting a UN racism conference where ideas will be bandied about that are in some ways influenced by the Danish Cartoons Controversy.
 
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