Newest Issue of Charlie Hebdo Prompts Media Ethics Debate
Public Editor Margaret Sullivan argued today that NYT should have published an image of the cover.
There’s almost no way you missed today’s biggest news: French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published its first new issue since terrorists killed more than a dozen people in and near its Paris offices one week ago.
This is a link to the cover of that issue, which repeats the “offense” that inspired the attack by publishing a visual representation of the prophet Muhammad. The above image is a screenshot of last night’s New York Times story, which did not include an image of the same cover.
Since the image leaked days ago and BuzzFeed (among other sites) has already run a tally of which publications published it and which didn’t earlier this week, we’re less concerned with the image itself than the ethics debate that it spawned.
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