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    LPSheaJ.K. Trotter
    1/07/15 3:26pm

    It's how I would report on this story in that I think the murderers committed a heinous vile act while at the same time I find these cartoons racist and appalling. I 100% support their right to publish them while at the same time would never consider publishing them myself.

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      BIlllingtonLPShea
      1/07/15 3:37pm

      thanks for making us aware that you are enlightened/progressive, it's a really important aspect to this story.

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    Orlandu7J.K. Trotter
    1/07/15 3:25pm

    I only get angry at religion, any religion, when they start trying to force people not of that religion to abide by their particular silly rules. If Jews don't want to eat pork or Muslims don't want to have icons of religious leaders in their house or evangelicals want to think dinosaurs walked with Adam and Eve, go for it. Just *keep it in your own faith*. None of us want that crap in our lives.

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      weirwoodtreehugger3Orlandu7
      1/07/15 3:46pm

      To fundamentalists, religious freedom means the right for them to force others to comply with their ideology. It's sad that media outlets are buying into it.

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      Cyber Mind Grrlweirwoodtreehugger3
      1/07/15 3:52pm

      Yes it does. A perfect example of this was the recent firing of the Atlanta Fire Chief who published a book condemning the LGBT community as committing "pedophilia and bestiality" and even went so far as to proclaim his position as Fire Chief in his book, which made it sound like this was the official policy of the Atlanta FD. Not only that, he was also on a rampage going to fire stations literally preaching against homosexuality.

      He was just fired. Now the fundies and rightwingers are up in arms proclaiming that he was "fired for just being a good Christian".

      It never ends. Religion is a sickness.

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    Medieval KnievelJ.K. Trotter
    1/07/15 3:28pm

    There is a time and a place for Minecraft, sir.

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      plzprettypuss2J.K. Trotter
      1/07/15 3:31pm

      Eh, is it sad I sort of understand why they're doing this? Now that the terrorists have made it clear that publishing cartoons like this will catch their notice, it's a risky move.

      I'm a lawyer, so I try to think about "Okay, if a newspaper publishes it and an extremist decides to walk into their office and shoot up the place and kills some poor worker just going about their day, how long until the newspaper gets smacked with a wrongful death suit alleging that publishing the cartoons was an act of negligence, given how they could have foreseen that an extremist would take exception to it?"

      Maybe that's not the thought process elsewhere, but that sure would happen in the US. Trust.

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        dothedewplzprettypuss2
        1/07/15 3:44pm

        I must disagree Counselor. The killer could be liable for wrongful death, but I don't think a newspaper - or any other company - has liability for doing something — in this case, reporting the news which is kind of the purpose of a newspaper — that provides the excuse for some lunatic to come and kill staff members. This is just another example of scared-of-our-own-shadow Americans using the excuse of a lawsuit to avoid doing something that takes some balls. Not saying that the Daily News should publish offensive cartoons, but it should certainly report on the massacre of journalists without self-censoring the coverage out of fear of angering terrorists.

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        GlutenFreeplzprettypuss2
        1/07/15 4:14pm

        When news organizations make their editorial decisions based on the advice of lawyers, we all lose.

        Seriously. Lawyers should have no part of newsroom decisions, except when asked to fight on behalf of the journalists.

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      JohnnybenchhandsJ.K. Trotter
      1/07/15 3:24pm

      Ah yes the religion of peace.

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        RCColaJ.K. Trotter
        1/07/15 3:39pm

        I wonder how many of these brave newspapers had editorials attacking Sony for giving into the terrorists?

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          JerrysackJ.K. Trotter
          1/07/15 3:28pm

          Boy is ISIS' face going to be red when they find out about "The Streisand Effect"

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            sui_generisJerrysack
            1/07/15 4:14pm

            It would be nice if that actually happened, because then there would be a sort of safety in numbers, in that the ubiquity of the images would both insulate anyone in particular from being targeted specifically, and also demonstrate to the crazies the counterproductive pointlessness of their stance. But it looks like the media's capitulation is going to prevent us from getting to that more-positive place.

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          MagisterJ.K. Trotter
          1/07/15 6:32pm

          The AP and other outlets should eat more Triscuits, like good "Darwinist faggots".

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            filmgirlJ.K. Trotter
            1/07/15 4:45pm

            Cowards all of them, the newspapers that are pixelating the cartoons and the shooters. If you are so proud of what you believe then why hide your face. I don't get it.

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              PatriceBoivinfilmgirl
              1/07/15 8:29pm

              perhaps their priority is profiteering, not news?

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              filmgirlPatriceBoivin
              1/07/15 8:51pm

              They are scared wimps.

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            KevinDubJ.K. Trotter
            1/07/15 3:27pm
            GIF
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