Letters to the Editor

• Salon, where is your spine?

  [Read the article: Rotten judgment in the state of Denmark]
  [Read more letters about this article: Here]

  Dear Editors,

  Over the past few days you have published three articles on the ‘cartoon conflagration’, yet not the cartoons themselves. As many letters to the editor have pointed out, you published shots of Nick Berg's gruesome murder, (which I’m sure some found offensive) but you won’t show the cartoons. Why?

  I’m going to take a wild guess and say that some panjandrum at Salon is worried about reprisals from elements in the global community if they were to publish the cartoons. To this is say please take your spine (the one laying on your desk) and put it back on. You have a responsibility to your readers and subscribers (I’m one) to put your coverage in context. How can we judge the content and accuracy of commentary without first seeing the primary sources of the controversy?

  Besides just plain journalistic integrity and a little bit of courage, it would be nice if Salon would stand in solidarity with the Danish paper in question over the simple and cherished right to the freedom of expression—even if you don’t agree with the content of the cartoons or the reasons that the paper published them.

  If you truly are afraid of possible violence or damage to the personnel or property of Salon, just say that I put a gun to your head and forced you to publish them. That’s language that the fundamentalists understand. Then Publish my name and my address (Chad Bagley, 601 Fuxing Rd., Shanghai) and I’ll take the heat.

  Thanks,

  Chad Bagley

  Permalink Thursday, February 9, 2006 06:13 PM

• Salon, where's your spine?

  [Read the article: "Everyone is afraid to criticize Islam"]
  [Read more letters about this article: Here]

  Dear Editors,

  Over the past few days you have published three articles on the ‘cartoon conflagration’, yet not the cartoons themselves. As many letters to the editor have pointed out, you published shots of Nick Berg's gruesome murder, (which I’m sure some found offensive) but you won’t show the cartoons. Why?

  I’m going to take a wild guess and say that some panjandrum at Salon is worried about reprisals from elements in the global community if they were to publish the cartoons. To this is say please take your spine (the one laying on your desk) and put it back on. You have a responsibility to your readers and subscribers (I’m one) to put your coverage in context. How can we judge the content and accuracy of commentary without first seeing the primary sources of the controversy?

  Besides just plain journalistic integrity and a little bit of courage, it would be nice if Salon would stand in solidarity with the Danish paper in question over the simple and cherished right to the freedom of expression—even if you don’t agree with the content of the cartoons or the reasons that the paper published them.

  If you truly are afraid of possible violence or damage to the personnel or property of Salon, just say that I put a gun to your head and forced you to publish them. That’s language that the fundamentalists understand. Then Publish my name and my address (Chad Bagley, 601 Fuxing Rd., Shanghai) and I’ll take the heat.

  Thanks,

  Chad Bagley

  Permalink Thursday, February 9, 2006 06:15 PM

• Salon, where is your spine?

  [Read the article: The Moroccan street: No to violence, no to Western disrespect]
  [Read more letters about this article: Here]

  Dear Editors,

  Over the past few days you have published three articles on the ‘cartoon conflagration’, yet not the cartoons themselves. As many letters to the editor have pointed out, you published shots of Nick Berg's gruesome murder, (which I’m sure some found offensive) but you won’t show the cartoons. Why?

  I’m going to take a wild guess and say that some panjandrum at Salon is worried about reprisals from elements in the global community if they were to publish the cartoons. To this is say please take your spine (the one laying on your desk) and put it back on. You have a responsibility to your readers and subscribers (I’m one) to put your coverage in context. How can we judge the content and accuracy of commentary without first seeing the primary sources of the controversy?

  Besides just plain journalistic integrity and a little bit of courage, it would be nice if Salon would stand in solidarity with the Danish paper in question over the simple and cherished right to the freedom of expression—even if you don’t agree with the content of the cartoons or the reasons that the paper published them.

  If you truly are afraid of possible violence or damage to the personnel or property of Salon, just say that I put a gun to your head and forced you to publish them. That’s language that the fundamentalists understand. Then Publish my name and my address (Chad Bagley, 601 Fuxing Rd., Shanghai) and I’ll take the heat.

  Thanks,

  Chad Bagley

  Permalink Thursday, February 9, 2006 06:17 PM