What was accomplished by running the Christ dipped in urine? These papers are cowards. They are afraid for their lives. They have nothing to fear from Christians and so insult them with impunity.
You're correct to condemn the blasphemous "art" from the early 1990's and Christian-bashing. And you're on the money about the newspapers being hypocritical on religious sensibilities.
But that still doesn't mean that publishing the cartoons is a good idea.