Courage, the selective kind

The Weekly Standard:

“In the wake of today’s massacre in Paris, there has already been a lot of preening about journalistic bravery. Much of it has come from people who, it can be shown, don’t have the guts to work in Charlie Hebdo’s newsroom. Preening about free speech may be reassuring at times like this, but what we need are apologies from those who haven’t done enough to defend free speech, as well as a real desire to hold those journalists and politicians who have undermined free speech accountable. As a smart academic on Twitter put it, “Today, as journalists ‘bravely’ voice support for Charlie Hebdo, ask them for their piece calling on Yale to publish the Muhammad cartoons.”

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