"Doug Kanter" wrote in message

But while the demonstrations were inflamed at least in part by the
cartoons' republishing by newspapers across continental Europe, the
media in the United States have largely abstained from representing the
cartoons, citing them as "too offensive to run," reports Editor and
Publisher.

more self-serving, dishonest, ass-covering crap from establishment media.
The only honest response I've heard of so far (among outlets refusing to
publish the cartoons) was from the Boston Phoenix in their 2/10/06
editorial: [in part].......

"There are three reasons not to publish the Danish cartoons depicting
Mohammed with his turban styled as a bomb and the other images that have
sparked violent protests and deaths throughout Europe, the Middle East, West
Asia, and Indonesia:
1) Out of fear of retaliation from the international brotherhood of radical
and bloodthirsty Islamists who seek to impose their will on those who do not
believe as they do. This is, frankly, our primary reason for not publishing
any of the images in question. Simply stated, we are being
terrorized.........."

The Herald didn't have the stones. The Globe, no doubt after consultation
with their play-callers in Manhattan, decided that the 1st amendment isn't
really THAT important........

Yet every day major market papers across the country will run cartoons
making George Bush look like Alfred E. Neuman. These ball-less parasites
accord a higher level of respect to nations full of unbathed mad-dog whack
jobs than they accord to the presidency of the United States. Shameful.