With new Charlie Hebdo cover, news value should have prevailed

January 14, 2015 19:01

Readers responded passionately, and in large numbers, to my postlast week about The Times's decision not to publish the now-famous Charlie Hebdo cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

(In fact, I've never had more comments on a post or column.)A vast majority of readers were critical of The Times's decision, feeling strongly that both because of news value and in order to reinforce free speech and show solidarity with a publication under attack, The Times should have published them.

Read the column on the NYT

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