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AMMAN, Jordan In one of several Middle Eastern protests Thursday, a Jordanian newspaper took the bold step of publishing the Danish caricatures of Prophet Muhammad that have outraged Muslims, saying it was reprinting them to show readers "the extent of the Danish offense." The Arabic weekly Shihan ran three of the 12 cartoons, including the one that depicts Muhammad as wearing a turban shaped like...

DUBAI – "Freedom of expression is one thing, but it should not be confused with acts of inciting feelings, which is what has happened in Denmark." This was how many responded to an ongoing survey by Khaleej Times on the publication of cartoons insulting Islam as a religion. "America took objection to the way Al Jazeera was covering the Iraq war, saying such coverage was inciting anti-American...

PARIS, Feb. 1 -- Newspapers across Europe reprinted cartoons Wednesday ridiculing the prophet Muhammad, saying they wanted to support the right of Danish and Norwegian papers to publish the caricatures, which have ignited fury among Muslims throughout the world. Germany's Die Welt daily newspaper published one of the drawings on its front page and said the "right to blasphemy" is one of the...

HONG KONG, Feb. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Hong Kong newspapers have carried editorials in the past few days, criticizing Taiwan authority leader Chen Shui-bian's recent "Taiwan independence" remarks. Chen Shui-bian proposed on Jan. 29 in his lunar new year speech abolishing the "National Unification Council (NUC) and the National Unification Guidelines" and "applying for United Nations membership under the...

Away from the main Congress venue at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, a group of media editors and CEOs huddled for a day to ponder the future of news. Will the quality journalism they take pride in practising today continue to have the resources needed to nourish it? The Americans were clearly anxious. Wall Street is punishing them for the print media's lack of growth prospects in the...

SANA'A- The Yemen Female Media Forum (YFMF) have joined hands to launch a new newspaper for the organization. Al-Raidah, which means ‘The Pioneer’, is 16 pages long and is issued monthly. It covers the state of women working in the media and the obstacles they face. In the first issue YFMF published a summary of the situation of Yemeni women in the media and the severe conditions they face in...

NEW YORK: More people are going to newspaper Web sites and in November the overall number of visitors to newspaper.coms hit an all-time high, according to numbers released by ratings firm Nielsen//NetRatings and the Newspaper Association of America (NAA). The report shows that more than 55 million people visited newspaper Web sites at least one time during the month of November, a 30% increase...

WASHINGTON – Military leaders angrily denounced as "beyond tasteless" a Washington Post editorial cartoon featuring a likeness of a severely wounded soldier and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld as an attending doctor who says, "I'm listing your condition as 'battle hardened.'" The cartoon by Post artist Tom Toles appeared in Sunday's newspaper. It reflected the view of some that Bush...

Little surprise accompanied my reading that Coreweekly, one of Madison’s alternative weekly publications, was ending its 18-month run because of apparent financial difficulties. In the saturated news environment that is Madison, publications that have a hard time defining themselves and their product usually have a hard time attracting readers and advertisers. Coreweekly’s demise, however...

Men and women who fight in wars say that even the most intense battles begin to feel routine if they go on long enough. Humans have an amazing capacity to adapt to horror, from the crack of incoming bullets to the deaths of their friends. Deadening their sense of shock, in fact, is what helps them to survive. It's even easier for people who are untouched by war to become inured to the flow of bad...