Kmele Foster

Well, I worry, I think we are winning in the culture and you're right to point that out. But we are not going to, it's, we're not going to find a lot of winning within the kind of legacy cultural institutions. Even yesterday, you know, I was just doing a last quick little Google news search before I hit publish on a piece about Charlie Hebdo. And here's the Columbia Journalism Review, right?

Well, I worry, I think we are winning in the culture and you're right to point that out. But we are not going to, it's, we're not going to find a lot of winning within the kind of legacy cultural institutions. Even yesterday, you know, I was just doing a last quick little Google news search before I hit publish on a piece about Charlie Hebdo. And here's the Columbia Journalism Review, right?

Well, I worry, I think we are winning in the culture and you're right to point that out. But we are not going to, it's, we're not going to find a lot of winning within the kind of legacy cultural institutions. Even yesterday, you know, I was just doing a last quick little Google news search before I hit publish on a piece about Charlie Hebdo. And here's the Columbia Journalism Review, right?

Institutional kind of organ of the media industry talking to itself, you know, talking about the mixed legacy and the, And the free speech is more complicated and nuanced than all of that. And like we're talking about the murder of 12 people, beloved cartoonists, cartoonists who mocked first and mostly actually the pope and every single French leader.

Institutional kind of organ of the media industry talking to itself, you know, talking about the mixed legacy and the, And the free speech is more complicated and nuanced than all of that. And like we're talking about the murder of 12 people, beloved cartoonists, cartoonists who mocked first and mostly actually the pope and every single French leader.

Institutional kind of organ of the media industry talking to itself, you know, talking about the mixed legacy and the, And the free speech is more complicated and nuanced than all of that. And like we're talking about the murder of 12 people, beloved cartoonists, cartoonists who mocked first and mostly actually the pope and every single French leader.

I mean, they're an anti-clerical satirical weekly. Stretching way back, very anti-authoritarian. The mixed record here is only the performance of the media, which made Charlie Hebdo lonely, and it shouldn't have been.

I mean, they're an anti-clerical satirical weekly. Stretching way back, very anti-authoritarian. The mixed record here is only the performance of the media, which made Charlie Hebdo lonely, and it shouldn't have been.

I mean, they're an anti-clerical satirical weekly. Stretching way back, very anti-authoritarian. The mixed record here is only the performance of the media, which made Charlie Hebdo lonely, and it shouldn't have been.

And this is something that Michael and I in particular have talked about and written about many times, not just over the last 10 years, but over the last 35 since the fatwa was placed on Salman Rushdie for Satanic Verses. There was a moment there. Where there was a time for choosing among Western intellectuals, and they chose badly. They chose intersectionally.

And this is something that Michael and I in particular have talked about and written about many times, not just over the last 10 years, but over the last 35 since the fatwa was placed on Salman Rushdie for Satanic Verses. There was a moment there. Where there was a time for choosing among Western intellectuals, and they chose badly. They chose intersectionally.

And this is something that Michael and I in particular have talked about and written about many times, not just over the last 10 years, but over the last 35 since the fatwa was placed on Salman Rushdie for Satanic Verses. There was a moment there. Where there was a time for choosing among Western intellectuals, and they chose badly. They chose intersectionally.

They said, well, Rushdie and Jimmy Carter's words in an op-ed that he wrote for The New York Times just – Three weeks after the fatwa, you know, Russia is guilty of insulting Islam, you know, because people from Muslim countries are more oppressed than Catholics or than people from a majority opinion.

They said, well, Rushdie and Jimmy Carter's words in an op-ed that he wrote for The New York Times just – Three weeks after the fatwa, you know, Russia is guilty of insulting Islam, you know, because people from Muslim countries are more oppressed than Catholics or than people from a majority opinion.

They said, well, Rushdie and Jimmy Carter's words in an op-ed that he wrote for The New York Times just – Three weeks after the fatwa, you know, Russia is guilty of insulting Islam, you know, because people from Muslim countries are more oppressed than Catholics or than people from a majority opinion.

This was like a new introduction of cowardice on the part of the West kind of judging it in this way. And when the Danish cartoon crisis happened in 2006, which Danish newspapers published cartoons of Muhammad, no one cared. And then a bunch of imams in the Middle East started publicizing them months later. And then it led to a bunch of riots. That was the moment when the West...

This was like a new introduction of cowardice on the part of the West kind of judging it in this way. And when the Danish cartoon crisis happened in 2006, which Danish newspapers published cartoons of Muhammad, no one cared. And then a bunch of imams in the Middle East started publicizing them months later. And then it led to a bunch of riots. That was the moment when the West...

This was like a new introduction of cowardice on the part of the West kind of judging it in this way. And when the Danish cartoon crisis happened in 2006, which Danish newspapers published cartoons of Muhammad, no one cared. And then a bunch of imams in the Middle East started publicizing them months later. And then it led to a bunch of riots. That was the moment when the West...

writ large, should have reprinted those cartoons. I advocated for such when I worked for the LA Times very strenuously, and I lost very narrowly in the opinion section, and I feel ashamed to this day that I didn't win that argument because Charlie Hebdo was one of the only places that did that. And once you become an outlier, then you become a target.

writ large, should have reprinted those cartoons. I advocated for such when I worked for the LA Times very strenuously, and I lost very narrowly in the opinion section, and I feel ashamed to this day that I didn't win that argument because Charlie Hebdo was one of the only places that did that. And once you become an outlier, then you become a target.