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NYT Hypocrisy: They'll Publish Photos That Offend Hasidic Jews, But Not MuslimsVery left rag The Boston Phoenix takes the Times to task. The 8”-by-10” photograph was hard to miss. Appearing on page A-3 of the Sunday New York Times on March 19, the black-and-white image of Erno Nussenzweig — a retired New Jersey diamond merchant and a member of the orthodox-Jewish Hasidic sect — stared out at readers just cracking open the morning paper. Taken in Times Square in 1999 by artist Philip-Lorca diCorcia, the picture hung in a well-received 2002 exhibition of diCorcia’s work at Chelsea’s Pace/MacGill Gallery, and it appears in the show’s exhibition catalogue. Nussenzweig, however, was not pleased with this notoriety: like virtually all ultra-orthodox Jews, he embraces the biblical injunction against “graven images.” And so Nussenzweig brought to the New York courts a legal challenge against such types of “street photography,” alleging that his privacy was violated when diCorcia snapped his picture and the gallery and catalogue displayed it. The Times chose to run the picture yet again — indeed, millions of times — to accompany its March 19 story on the lawsuit. This, from the same paper that elected — allegedly out of respect for Muslim sensitivities — not to republish any of the satirical Danish cartoons of Mohammed that caused an international uproar just last month. As Dorothy Parker might have said, “What fresh hell is this?” The man's lawsuit was properly dismissed (you generally don't have any privacy rights as regards your photograph when in public; ask any celebrity). But -- why would the NYT repeatedly run a photo the subject objected to on sincere religious grounds? If they ran it just to make the point they had the right to run it (which they did)-- why not do the same for the Mohammad cartoons? The Boston Phoenix was quite up-front about its reasons for not running the pictures, as they note. The Times, apparently, lied. When the Boston Phoenix decided not to republish the cartoons, it admitted candidly that it was taking that highly unusual (for this paper) step out of fear of provoking violence against its staff (see Editorial, News and Features, February 10). Either the Times engages in a double standard as to whom it will or will not insult gratuitously, or it has been less than candid about the real reason it refrained from publishing the cartoons. Emphasis added. There can be little doubt that the Mohammad cartoons were more newsworthy-- they provoked worldwide riots, after all. This man's picture, on the other hand, was merely an illustration of a subgenre of photography with little news value. But the Times ran his picture multiple times, knowing he objected on religious grounds. It's hard to come to any other conclusion that the Times doesn't fear Hasidic lawsuits but does fear Muslim violence against its staff and stringers. But they won't admit that. This from the paper that endlessly chides its political opponents with not be forthright and candid with the American public. | Recent Comments
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