WaPo Responds to Its Publishing Controversial Charlie Hebdo Cover
As news outlets worked to cover the attack on Charlie Hebdo yesterday — the deadliest single-day assault on journalists since the 2009 massacre in Maguindanao, Philippines — they were faced with the secondary issue of whether or not to publish the cartoons that made the satirical publication so provocative.
Media critic and NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen noted that the divide between organizations who did and didn’t censor the cartoons fell largely along legacy vs. new media lines. The Washington Post was one of the few legacy organizations that didn’t follow suit.
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