Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* this is a pretty good summary as to what's going on right now and its basic context. Note that Charlie Hebdo followed up last week's publication of Muhammed cartoons with a stunt of "two issues," one a "responsible" one with blank pages. No matter what you think of the issues involved, that one's pretty funny. Here's an article on that new issue specifically; here's a better one, I think, that includes the notion that one of the ideas behind publishing the cartoons is to make the publication of such cartoons unremarkable.

* here's a talking point that's emerging from the Charlie Hebdo Muhammed cartoons: provocation as a marketing strategy, that inciting people is just something that publications like this do now and this may be divorced a bit from editorial goals that are more engaged with the satirical landscape as it develop independently of those goals. That particular linked-to article gives some of the background on Charlie Hebdo and Muhammed cartoons, which is welcome.

* as mentioned, El Jueves publishes its own set of Muhammed cartoons. Titanic will follow.

* another story gaining traction through the inclusion in multiple pieces is an Egyptian paper's decision to fight cartoons with cartoons.

* Charles Lane at the Washington Post says hooray for Charlie Hebdo.

* this editorial about "pyromaniac journalism" is getting a lot of play, ironically in part because of the same sort of sensationalism -- that name! -- the piece criticizes.

* Jonah Birch criticizes efforts to control/squash protests against the publication of those cartoons.

* and let the super-strident political commentary riffing off of these events begin. They probably never ended, I just haven't been paying attention.

* the wonderfully-named Theodore Dalrymple dissects statements from Hassen Chalghoumi. I always like those pieces where you're curious how they were typed when the writer is crossing his arms and harrumphing the whole time.

* here you see some more basic themes of coverage given voice, some of which are repeated elsewhere, primarily 1) criticism that protests were spiked, 2) bringing in the semi-nude photos of what's-her-face the royal person for comparison's sake.
 
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