As such, media outlets wrestled with the dilemma over whether to show the magazine’s previous caricatures of the prophet after this month’s massacre at Charlie Hebdo’s Paris office. After the magazine put Mohammed on the cover of its first post-attack issue last week, violent protests broke out in Africa and the Middle East.
But while many major news organizations such as CNN and the New York Times refrained from showing the Mohammed cartoons, websites such as Gawker and BuzzFeed did not hesitate.
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