The editorial staff of the alternative weekly New York Press walked out today, en masse, after the paper's publishers backed down from printing the Danish cartoons that have become the center of a global free-speech fight.
Editor-in-Chief Harry Siegel emails, on behalf of the editorial staff:
New York Press, like so many other publications, has suborned its own professed principles. For all the talk of freedom of speech, only the New York Sun locally and two other papers nationally have mustered the minimal courage needed to print simple and not especially offensive editorial cartoons that have been used as a pretext for great and greatly menacing violence directed against journalists, cartoonists, humanitarian aid workers, diplomats and others who represent the basic values and obligations of Western civilization.
Read the whole thing.
UPDATE:
By Wretchard:
Even at the height of the Inquisition, there was no power on earth that could require a Nihil obstat or Imprimatur from Scandinavia to Manhattan. There is one now, at least one which many newspapers implicitly recognize.
As Will Durant said, "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."
All that puffery about the fearlessness, nobility and integrity of the Press. Kinda disappointing.
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