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Civil Liberties

Sky News Really Doesn't Want to Show the New Charlie Hebdo Cover

Self-censorship in action

Jesse Walker | 1.15.2015 12:23 AM

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Caroline Fourest complains on the U.K. outlet Sky News that much of the media won't show the cover of the latest Charlie Hebdo. Then she holds up a copy, and the host obligingly demonstrates Fourest's point:

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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