Freedom of Journalistic Revenge?
"IRAN'S largest selling newspaper announced today it was holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed."It will be an international cartoon contest about the Holocaust," said Farid Mortazavi, the graphics editor for Hamshahri newspaper - which is published by Teheran's conservative municipality.
He said the plan was to turn the tables on the assertion that newspapers can print offensive material in the name of freedom of expression....."
"Mr Mortazavi said tomorrow's edition of the paper will invite cartoonists to enter the competition, with "private individuals" offering gold coins to the best 12 artists - the same number of cartoons that appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten."
My bet is that you will not see Jewish neighborhoods burning their city's buildings and acting ugly in the streets. I bet there will be no "Death Threats" issued against Muslim cartoonists.
The whole contest idea just appears very ironic after the violent outbursts and outrage.
posted by Michele @ 8:31 AM
1 Comments:
LOL Frontal, ya made me laugh!
I think the point anon was trying to make is (and this is only my interpretation), that they initially responded by throwing bombs, and threats, kind of a tearing down of the enemy......Kind of like the libs attacking Bush as their number one agenda - and not making any plans of their own for a better country.
Then after the fact, they realize that perhaps joining in on the game - example joining the free press and expressing themselves and their anger that way - will perhaps get them further a long in the point that they wished to make. All done peacefully.
Kind of like the Dems waking up to the notion that "hey, maybe instead of concentrating all of our energy on destroying the bush administration, perhaps we should develop a platform and spend our time selling that.......
Just my take....perhaps I'm looking too deep?
I don't know who anonymous is.as some never leave their identity. So I can only guess what they are attempting to get across.
I'll just chalk the comment up to "freedom of speech"
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