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The New York Press, New Partisan, And The Danish C...: "The New York Press, New Partisan, And The Danish Cartoons It’s been a fairly big story in the blogosphere that Harry Siegel and the rest of the staff of the New York Press resigned as a group when the paper’s owner ordered Siegel, the Editor, to kill a story that was going to print the infamous Danish caricatures of Mohammed. I’ve mentioned Harry Siegel here before, in his capacity as Editor of the on line journal New Partisan, which he left to become Editor of the Press. Due to the connection between the two journals, New Partisan then ran the editorial and the pieces that were pulled from the Press. (Full disclosure: I’m a contributor at New Partisan and have a couple of items in the hopper there at the moment.) I’m impressed by the thoughtfulness of the material that the Press killed. Take this piece by Scott Indrisek: [T]he cartoons themselves are objectionable on certain grounds. They’re badly drawn and not terribly insightful, for starters—which makes the American media’s reluctance to display them all the more appalling. CNN chose “not to show the cartoons out of respect for Islam,” which is an ironically gentlemanly response to an outbreak of global violence and protest. Gawker recently posted a Flickr link to many of t"