By: E&P Staff The Spare Change News, an alternative paper in Boston, published one of the controversial Muhammad cartoons Thursday.
It appeared on the Op-Ed page, with a teaser on Page One. Accompanying the image was an editorial defending the decision to run it and criticizing other Boston papers for not printing the cartoons.
The editorial stated, in part: "Spare Change News advocates for social justice, and having freedom of speech -- even that which makes fun of religion -- is one of the rights all people should enjoy. Yes, the cartoons were in poor taste. The Danish newspaper probably should not have published them. But adults in civilized societies do not murder and pillage whenever their sensibilities are offended. ...
"The mainstream media have also surrendered their duty to the public -- and to the truth. ....Many of the images in question are indeed disgusting, and SCN would never reprint any of them except under these extraordinary circumstances. But now that the images are newsworthy in and of themselves, the mainstream media have a responsibility to inform their audiences, in the most accurate and impartial method possible, of why the rioters are angry."
Spare Change News, founded in 1992, is mostly distributed via sales by homeless people.
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