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Last week two editors from the University of Illinois? student-run Daily Illini were suspended and could lose their jobs for printing the infamous Danish Muslim cartoons.
The majority of the media aren?t publishing the cartoon because of the unthinkable responses it has sparked across the world this year.
It?s sad to think that the fear of violent protest is what?s holding back different media sources from reprinting this cartoon. However, a student newspaper has the same responsibility that any other media has over what it publishes.
While we at The Maine Campus do support freedom of speech, we also believe in weighing the pros and cons of publishing certain speech. In this particular situation, the risk of harm to innocent people does not warrant showing a picture that most people have already seen and that is widely available on the Internet.
Bangor Daily News