Media bias on display at WashPost in Coretta Scott King funeral reporting
Tim Graham at Newsbusters reports:
Iran paper to publish Holocaust ‘cartoons’
In apparent retaliation for the publishing and reprinting of the infamous Mohammed cartoons by various papers overseas, an Iranian paper has announced that it is going to hold a contest on cartoons on the Holocaust. Via Australia’s NEWS.com.au:
Another media double standard re: cartoons
Earlier today I blogged about the blatant media double standard at play with the eagerness of most major US newspapers to publish the photos from the Abu Ghraib scandal versus their unwillingness to reprint the ‘offensive’ Mohammed cartoons.
US media will print Abu Ghraib photos but not controversial cartoons
Aussie blogger Tim Blair makes a great point in response to the lack of publication by most newspapers here of the controversial cartoons that have sparked such a furor overseas. He writes:
Bond’s GOP/swastika comparison still gets no MSM coverage
11 references in Google News, and still only one semi-mainstream source mentions the swastika reference: World Net Daily. Absolutely amazing.