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NEW YORK, Feb 8, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Three editors and a reporter quit The New York Press for quashing an editorial and reprints of cartoons that angered Muslims around the world, a report said.
Before the publisher pulled Wednesday's front page of the free newspaper, it carried the headline, "Where's Mohammed -- the Danish Cartoon Madness." An editorial criticized other newspapers for lacking the courage to reprint Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, WCBS-TV, New York, reported.
Also included were drawings portraying the prophet as a terrorist.
"A lot of papers haven't run these cartoons because they've felt threatened," resigning Editor in Chief Harry Siegel told the TV station. "If that happens, then this violence has been worthwhile and it's accomplished its goal."
"The fact that the press is self-censored over this is disgusting," said resigning Managing Editor Tim Marchman.
"It's not something we can write about and call people hypocrites if we're going to be doing the same thing," said ex-reporter Azi Paybarah.
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