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• Thursday, February 16, 2006 09:26 AM

  Where is the Journalism?

  Salon is becoming a mindless parody of a publication. Your convenient display of "courage" in following the Australian press in publishing these 2.5 year old photos, combined with your recent display of "prudence" in not publishing the Mohammed Bomb Head cartoons is revealing you as a publication that is sliding down the slippery slope of questionable 'journalistic' decision making. You are well on your way to the irrelevance reserved for sensationalistic grocery store checkout counters, or hopelessly reactionary left wing (or right wing) syncophants.

  Where was your courage when you needed to stand with a global free press, and stand with the Danish people?

  Where was your courage when you needed to say "We will not be silenced by intimidation." to the the hyper-reactionary militants who are attempting to truly dictate what is said and not said in free press around the world?

  These photos and the activities that they portray are reprehensible. Your choice to ONLY bring a spotlight to THIS reprehesible event, 2.5 years after the fact, without showing the same commitment to openly discuss and portray the current, newsworthy, important reprehensible events that define the world we live in, and the middle east, is also reprehensible.

  You are not brave, you are not incisive, and you certainly shouldn't adopt this pose of quiet journalistic bravery. You haven't earned it. You are becoming an irrelevant left wing we-only-exist-to-conveniently-shout-insults-at-the-current-administration news journal.

  —Think! Read Think!'s other letters
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