Bloomberg’s Eli Lake Instructs MSNBC’s Ronan Farrow To Air Charlie Hebdo Cover

LAKE: "I can tell you that Bloomberg itself did run a slide show of the offensive cartoons that Charlie Hebdo -- or what was deemed by some to be offensive cartoons in Charlie Hebdo -- in a slide show, in one of their news stories. Bloomberg View has not -- the column side of it has not done that. But I would just say personally my view is that you should show the cover of Charlie Hebdo this week. You should show the cartoons because they are extremely newsworthy. This is what set off a massacre in a great western capital. So in that respect, they’re definitely on the news. I do think that there is sometimes a legitimate concern for the safety of correspondents in dangerous areas where there could be retribution on those journalists who are not immune to being kidnapped by groups like ISIS and so forth. But if that’s the case, then there should be a very straightforward statement that this news organization will not publish the cartoons because we’re afraid that our correspondents would be put into danger."