CNN: ‘Our Policy Not to Show Potentially Offensive Images of the Prophet’

‘CNN will not show you the new cover, which depicts the Prophet Muhammad, because it is our policy not to show potentially offensive images of the prophet’

CNN: ‘Our Policy Not to Show Potentially Offensive Images of the Prophet’ (The Weekly Standard)

CNN described its reasoning for not showing the latest cover of Charlie Hebdo (the first issue to be published after last week's massacre) in a broadcast this morning: "CNN will not show you the new cover, which depicts the Prophet Muhammad, because it is our policy not to show potentially offensive images of the prophet," the host declared this morning.

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