Controversial cartoon...

This is what is causing all the uproar...the original article from the Danish Jyllends-Posten newspaper. I am suprised that the American media has completely shied away from showing these images...even Malaysian and Australian newspapers showed the images...if not for anything else - at least to keep their readers informed. Since when does the media do this kind of self-censorship ? Since when do they make decisions about what must be reported and what must not be ? Isn't it their role to actually report the news and let the readers make a choice and form opinions ? I believe that the American media has fallen short of the high expectations that journalists are usually held at. Even the so-called liberal newspapers such as the New York Times and Washington Post didn't have the guts to go through with a fair reporting progress. And what about Faux (Fox) news...that great defender of democracy ?

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Original link via Wikipedia.

Update : My remarks about the American media completely shying away from publishing the cartoons is inaccurate. Apparently the very well-read Rocky Mountain News and the Philadelphia Inquirer did publish the images and got appropriate responses...picketing, slogans and the kind...perhaps I should have stated...

None of the larger media conglomerates with broad reaches took it upon themselves to report it.

Original link via Instapundit.