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...that the debate at Harvard has assumed a more civil (although still passionate) tenor. While not every newspaper editor would feel comfortable reprinting these images—for different newspapers have inherently different approaches to covering he news—the Salient’s decision to publish them warrants commendation, as it reflects their commitment to an informed public and a free press. The Salient’s reprinting furthered the free-speech debate by informing students about the actual images that proved so provocative in the Middle East. In order for there to be productive debate...
...Harvard Salient contributed to public debate when it reprinted four of the 12 controversial cartoons originally published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, its efforts would have been truly commendable. As the Salient chose instead to sidetrack meaningful discussion with the cartoons’ repetitive and incendiary republication on its back page, however, such commendation is hardly warranted. While no authority should limit the ability of the Salient (or any publication) to publish provocative material, the paper’s decision to republish the Danish cartoons was in poor taste and had improper motivations and should therefore not be congratulated...
...valuable right with the publication of these particular, offensive cartoons. The Salient’s publication is not a statement of support for free speech—this could have been achieved by a simple statement of affirmation of the Danish paper’s right to publish them—but is instead an expression that the cartoons are themselves a valuable contribution to this discourse. Endorsing the Salient’s decision to publish these cartoons sanctions this view, affirming a false dichotomy: that one either supports free speech by reprinting them or stifles open discourse by choosing...
...hypocritical, moreover, to commend the Salient for bringing these images more prominently into the marketplace of ideas and then to decline to call on all newspapers to publish them. If the cartoons themselves are an essential component of an important debate, then bringing them to all readers should be a central part of any news source’s commitment to inform...
...didn’t publish these cartoons first, and we didn’t publish them alone,” Kavulla said. “There is a journalistic obligation for the mainstream media to show these things...