Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* the group Reporters Without Borders had in previous years punished Denmark for its role in the Danish Cartoons Controversy, but in its most recent survey the country was #1 on their list of free-press friendly countries. The curious thing is that legal precedents instigated by the Controversy contributed to the positive appraisal.

* here's a fairly standard and straight-forward recent indictment of the decision by the Yale University Press to not publish any imagery of Muhammad in their new book on the Danish Cartoons Controversy.

* and here's a much-longer and more detailed version of the same kind of indictment, including the alarming and lingering charge that the Press made their decision so as not to piss off potential Near Eastern contributors to their endowment. If you spaced out during or consciously skipped the whole Yale University chapter of this cultural story, and you don't mind the polemical aspects being pushed in your face, that's a good catch-up article.
 
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