{"id":675,"date":"2006-02-08T11:22:41","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T19:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/on_the_off_chance_any_wack-ass_islamic_fundamentalists_happen_to_pick_up_the_new_york_press_put_away_the_gasoline_and_step_away_from_that_consulate_--_the_cartoons_have_been_nixed.html"},"modified":"2006-02-08T11:22:41","modified_gmt":"2006-02-08T19:22:41","slug":"on_the_off_chan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/on_the_off_chan.html","title":{"rendered":"On The Off Chance Any Wack-Ass Islamic Fundamentalists Happen To Pick Up The New York Press: Put Away The Gasoline And Step Away From That Consulate &#8212; The Cartoons Have Been Nixed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/63201.htm\">Four staffers from the New York Press have resigned<\/a> after the publisher pulled an article that reprinted the infamous Danish cartoons that have had parts the Muslim world rioting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Three editors and a reporter quit yesterday after The New York Press decided at the last minute to yank a story that would have featured the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that have unleashed a wave of violence across the Arab world.<\/p>\n<p>The four quit in protest when the publisher of the free alternative weekly killed the piece, WCBS\/Channel 2 reported.<\/p>\n<p>The cartoons have already been published by The New York Sun.<\/p>\n<p>In an e-mail, Press editor-in-chief Harry Siegel said after being &#8220;ordered at the 11th hour to pull the now-infamous Danish cartoons . . . the editorial group &#8212; consisting of myself, managing editor Tim Marchman, arts editor Jonathan Leaf and one-man City Hall bureau Azi Paybarah &#8212; chose instead to resign our positions.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The staffers&#8217; side of the story is <a href=\"http:\/\/51.nypress.com\/blog.cfm?blog_id=454\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four staffers from the New York Press have resigned after the publisher pulled an article that reprinted the infamous Danish cartoons that have had parts the Muslim world rioting: Three editors and a reporter quit yesterday after The New York Press decided at the last minute to yank a story that would have featured the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-need_to_know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}