Feb 20, 2006
by Jeff Jacoby

"The Phoenix is Boston's leading ''alternative' newspaper, the kind of brash, pull-no-punches weekly that might have been expected to print without hesitation the Mohammed cartoons that Islamists have been using to incite rage and riots across the Muslim world. Its willingness to push the envelope was memorably demonstrated in 2002, when it broke with most media to publish a grisly photograph of Daniel Pearl's severed head, and supplied a link on its website to the sickening video of the Wall Street Journal reporter's beheading. (The Phoenix was widely criticized, though not by me. I defended its actions in a column that concluded: 'This is no time to be covering our eyes.')

"But the Phoenix isn't publishing the Mohammed drawings, and on February 10, in a brutally candid editorial, it explained why. . . ." More: http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/jeffjacoby/2006/02/20/187135.html