"We don't want to offend anyone. We aren't showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. This area should be avoided as, quite simply, it's offensive to Muslims," said the wimpy-est politically-correct jerk I've ever heard.
This nonsense was spoken by one David Studer, journalistic standards and practices director at CBC. I guess he literally runs the broadcaster because he has to approve everything the network puts out. Heard him twice on CBC Radio and I was appalled by....well.....his overwhelming wimpy-ness. I am glad I am not a graduate of Carleton's school of "journalism" because this is from where this dope graduated. I graduated from Carleton, but with an English degree; somehow I ended up in journalism. Lucky me.
Studer also decreed that no footage of the murder of the wounded Muslim police officer, Ahmed Merabet, be shown. His view appears to be that the sensitive and fragile public be protected from offences that might upset them. How ridiculous. "There are better ways to honour and stand beside our fellow journalists." What he meant, of course, was that there are safer (for the CBC) ways to honour them.
An enlightened Muslim journalist on the program retorted that if depictions of the prophet are offensive to Muslims, then Muslims shouldn't reproduce them and shouldn't look at them. "The rest of the world can. We don't rule the world," he intelligently stated.
Mainstream media -- including the CBC -- has no problem making fun of other religions. Studer should step down. What a wimp.
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