{"id":6012,"date":"2010-10-23T11:45:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T15:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6012"},"modified":"2010-10-23T11:45:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T15:45:51","slug":"has-molly-norris-become-an-un-person-to-the-society-for-professional-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/23\/has-molly-norris-become-an-un-person-to-the-society-for-professional-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Molly Norris become an un-person to the Society for Professional Journalists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/22\/society-for-professional-journ\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Welch<\/a> sees little positive effort and much bitchiness from one of the organizations that should have been front-and-centre to help Molly Norris:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On Sept. 15, it was announced that Molly Norris, the Seattle-based alt-weekly cartoonist who suggested, then eventually backed away from and repudiated, the &#8220;Everybody Draw Mohammed Day&#8221; protest against Comedy Central censoring bits of a <em>South Park<\/em> episode, had gone into hiding with the FBI&#8217;s assistance so as to hopefully avoid being murdered by Islamic assassins. It was a dark, dark day for American journalism and the freedom of expression. On Sept. 20, the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> newspaper wrote an editorial criticizing the professional journalism\/free speech community for its comparative silence on the issue. <\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t expect journalism organizations to share my priorities. But I do expect them to do more than raise an eyebrow when a cartoonist goes into hiding after being threatened with death, then act all bitchy when someone calls them out on it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Welch sees little positive effort and much bitchiness from one of the organizations that should have been front-and-centre to help Molly Norris: On Sept. 15, it was announced that Molly Norris, the Seattle-based alt-weekly cartoonist who suggested, then eventually backed away from and repudiated, the &#8220;Everybody Draw Mohammed Day&#8221; protest against Comedy Central censoring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28,13],"tags":[186,224,213],"class_list":["post-6012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-media","category-usa","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-freedomofthepress","tag-newspapers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1yY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6014,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012\/revisions\/6014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}