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NY Times: No Need To Show Images Of King Funeral
Point Five ^ | 2/8/06

Posted on 02/08/2006 4:49:02 PM PST by StoneGiant

NY Times: No Need To Show Images Of King Funeral

By a4g
Point Five Staff Writer @ 10:48 am
 

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.

 

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.

“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.”



TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: king; nytimes

1 posted on 02/08/2006 4:49:03 PM PST by StoneGiant
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To: StoneGiant

LOL!! Touche'


2 posted on 02/08/2006 4:50:33 PM PST by randog (What the....?!)
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To: StoneGiant

hehe


3 posted on 02/08/2006 4:51:34 PM PST by Sometimes A River (allow Common Sense and Faith to trump Logic and Reason)
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To: StoneGiant

Might they go out on a limb and offer a link on the website?


4 posted on 02/08/2006 4:52:50 PM PST by TenaciousZ
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To: StoneGiant

-snicker- Point 5 is a funny site!


5 posted on 02/08/2006 4:53:28 PM PST by Theresawithanh (Always remember that you're unique. Just like everyone else.)
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To: StoneGiant

Oh, that's good.


6 posted on 02/08/2006 4:54:08 PM PST by colorado tanker (We need more "chicken-bleep Democrats" in the Senate!)
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To: StoneGiant

Fanning the flames as usual.


7 posted on 02/08/2006 4:58:11 PM PST by freekitty
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To: freekitty

They are running out of flames to fan.


8 posted on 02/08/2006 4:58:32 PM PST by freekitty
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To: StoneGiant
What will the NYSlimes do for me when I die?
9 posted on 02/08/2006 4:58:53 PM PST by Bender2 (Thanks to ya'll who've read the first three chapters of my Science Fiction novel...)
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To: StoneGiant

Your article source is a blog and your internal link is to a gay blog. Now, I'm not doubting the stupidity of the NYT, but do you have an actual link to the NYT reasoning? Seems to me that this kind of stupidity is even beyond the NYT. After all, race baiting this openly is on par with Julius Streicher and 'Der Sturmer.'


10 posted on 02/08/2006 4:59:06 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (I have nothing else to say - for now.)
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To: WorkingClassFilth

It's called "satire".


11 posted on 02/08/2006 5:01:36 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: Mr. Lucky

Thanks, that's all I wanted to know. These days, there's a mighty fine line between satire and reality and sometimes none at all.


12 posted on 02/08/2006 5:26:00 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (I have nothing else to say - for now.)
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To: StoneGiant
(You Know What I'm Talkin' 'bout)
13 posted on 02/08/2006 8:13:06 PM PST by End_Clintonism_Now (MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL CLINTON!)
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To: 537cant be wrong; acad1228; Alexander Rubin; AppyPappy; areafiftyone; Bahbah; balrog666; Buck W.; ..

ping


14 posted on 02/08/2006 8:17:17 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: End_Clintonism_Now



The thin line between satire and sad truth is sometimes impossible to measure.
15 posted on 02/08/2006 8:38:32 PM PST by StoneGiant (Power without morality is disaster. Morality without power is useless.)
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To: EveningStar

this is a great one thanks for the ping.


16 posted on 02/13/2006 3:59:33 PM PST by 537cant be wrong (vampires stole my lunch money !)
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To: StoneGiant

"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.


17 posted on 02/13/2006 4:02:25 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God))
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