Why the Star won't run the #CharlieHebdo cartoons:
"We stand by our legal right to free speech. But we won’t exploit it to commit a moral wrong."
"We stand by our legal right to free speech. But we won’t exploit it to commit a moral wrong."
"We could run the Charlie Hebdo cartoons. There is a strong news rationale for doing so. But there are important reasons of principle not to do it. Just as we would not publish racist or pornographic images, we will exercise our judgment not to print the cartoons.
We will not print them because we have too much respect for fellow Canadians of Muslim background. We will not send a message that their way of being Canadian is less acceptable or less valuable than that of any other citizen. We will not do it because it is not the Canadian thing to do.
And we won’t do it because we have too much respect for ourselves. The Toronto Star has campaigned against arbitrary and cruel acts of power for more than a century.
We stand by our legal right to free speech. But we won’t exploit it to commit a moral wrong."
By: John Cruickshank Publisher
We stand by our legal right to free speech. But we won’t exploit it to commit a moral wrong."
By: John Cruickshank Publisher
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