Weekly print run of 3,000,000 for CHARLIE--usual run is 60,000

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1. Good. Global Leaders had their photo op and left. But the conversation needs to continue.

Because they aren't likely to pursue it.

And by "it" I mean the question of what really motivated the attacks.

It wasn't the blaspheming, it wasn't the cartoons.

There's a far greater crime afoot, the crime of imperialism and exploitation, the one that CNN isn't covering.

A Hat Tip to our dear friend Nadin, who wrote:

...We at Reporting San Diego expect calls for censorship. Silence is consent. We are also aware that the people responsible for these horrific acts are a very small minority, or a minority. Western Governments, which includes the United States, have to figure out why young people feel so alienated from their society that they are willing to pick up arms.

http://reportingsandiego.com/2015/01/11/why-the-attack-on-free-speech/

And:

As a news producer, but also a news consumer I found it striking that Jim Bitterman gave a report to CNN-I that was pretty much what we knew at that moment. Yet, he went live to Atlanta a few seconds later and the reporting had quite a bit more speculation in it.

It was obvious they know their audiences. American audiences get a dumbed down product that is going to speculate even when the facts are not in. The international audience will not allow for that. One has to wonder if the penchant for conspiratorial thinking is partly fueled by CNN, and other media in the United States?

Of course the moment that was surreal was when they were self-critical. We are giving the terrorists what they want, coverage, and wall to wall-in fact. We might not want to do this, but we will be right back. It was a moment of did you even listen to what you just said?

Of course, when Senator Lindsey Graham told CNN that President Barack Obama was to blame, I had a moment of not having to set my watch. It was expected, and not challenged. The statement, on its face, is ridiculous, but at no time did anybody say, this is out of line.

Finally we have seen US Papers rethink their cartoon policy. Also many now refuse to run Charlie Hebdo cartoons. It seems the terrorists have won.

http://reportingsandiego.com/2015/01/12/a-commentary-on-us-coverage-of-charlie-hebdo/

NGU, DU.