Even in their coverage of the attacks on the Paris satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, some media outlets shied from showing the offending cartoons of Muhammad, but not ones offensive to Christians and Jews, some commentators complain.
The New York Daily News pixilated the cartoon in a photo of Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier holding up the magazine after its offices were firebombed in 2011. Charbonnier was one of those killed on Wednesday.
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But conservative commentator Mark Steyn said on
Fox News Channel's "The Kelly File" that the Daily News had no problem showing a cartoon of "a hook-nosed Jew."
"You can say anything you like about Christianity, you can say anything you like about Judaism," Steyn said.
CNN also showed the same photo as the Daily News, but rather than pixilating the cartoon, it cropped the cartoon out of the shot. Later, the network showed a cartoon from the magazine depicting the Pope holding a condom in place of the communion host.
Media critic Bernard Goldberg also appeared on "The Kelly File," noting that in 2005, The New York Times decided not to run the Danish cartoons that offended Muslims because it said that they could be adequately described without showing them and that printing them could offend the faith of Muslims who believe it is against their religion to depict their prophet.
"They didn't want to offend people of faith by showing gratuitous symbols," Goldberg said. "One day later, Megyn, not one week later, not one month later, one day later, the same New York Times ran a picture of a painting that showed the Virgin Mary covered in elephant crap, OK? So, they're not afraid of showing gratuitous symbols when they offend Christians."
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