NY Times: No Need To Show Images Of King Funeral

Coretta Scott King, who would normally be pictured here as a reasonable visual accompaniment to this story, was laid to rest on Tuesday, after a funeral attended by family and dignitaries. To respect the sensibilities of that segment of our readership consumed with hate-filled, vile racist beliefs, we’ve refrained from publishing a picture of a black woman, although to describe her as “black” does a disservice to the rainbow of color choices available in the spectrum, the Pantone standards containing several hundred variations that could legitimately be ascribed to the gamut of facial tones.

hat it would not print images from the funeral of Coretta Scott King, based on fears that the images would offend its White Separatist readership.

“We’ve had long and vigorous debate in the newsroom and concluded that publishing [the photos] is not essential to telling the story,” said Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times, in an e-mail Friday evening.

Images from the funeral, which have ignited angry outrage from violent skinheads and groups such

as National Alliance, are said to be “deeply offensive to those Americans who believe in racial purity and the segregation of races.”

King took up the cause of civil rights after her husband, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a key figure in the US civil rights movement in the 1960s, was assassinated.

Keller described his decision to withhold elements of a story as neither easy nor entirely satisfying, but explained that “we can quite adequately convey the nature of [the photos] by describing them.”

He pointed to a recent Times story that revealed a highly classified NSA surveillance program, which required no accompanying photos “to get the job done.”

"The NY Times today announced that it would not print images from the funeral of Coretta Scott King, based on fears that the images would offend its White Separatist readership."

LOL!!!

It's LIBERALS that are the RACISTS, hence why the NYT will not print any images. The NYT believes it is better than all of us. It's a toss up as to why paper is the most RACIST. I see the NYT leading the list of racist LIBERAL rag for a newspaper.

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