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Kudos to Roger Smith and CTV

By Ezra Levant on January 12, 2010 1:37 AM | | |

Four years ago, the Western Standard was one of the only media in Canada (or indeed North America) to show our readers the news of the season, namely the Danish cartoons of the Muslim prophet Mohammed. Those cartoons were newsworthy because they had "caused" rioting around the world that killed nearly 250 people in the month of February, 2006, alone.

You can see all the cartoons here. This one is probably the most famous, drawn by Kurt Westergaard:

DanishCartoon07.jpgNone of the major TV networks or daily newspapers in Canada published the cartoons, and many of them came up with disappointing excuses as to why they didn't. Here was the CBC's weak excuse for not showing them on TV, but I really shouldn't pick on them, because few others showed them.

Well, imagine my delight when this TV clip was brought to my attention. CTV's Roger Smith was reporting on a foiled assassination attempt against Westergaard -- and not only was Westergaard's cartoon displayed clearly for a few seconds, but the entire page of Mohammed cartoons was briefly shown as well.

That shouldn't be remarkable -- it's just plain old journalism to show TV viewers the central image in a story about a cartoon. But, given the nearly uniform, self-imposed censorship of 2006, it's worth congratulating CTV, Smith and his producers. Good for them -- and good for all of us.

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