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Associated Press censored Muhammad cartoons while selling ‘Piss Christ’

By Timothy P. Carney
Published January 7, 2015 8:19pm ET
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Associated Press censored Muhammad cartoons while selling ‘Piss Christ’
A person reads on November 1, 2011 in Paris an issue of Satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo to be published on November 2, 2011, whose cover features prophet Mohammed. (MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty images) | MARTIN BUREAU

UPDATE: It appears AP pulled their copy of Piss Christ this afternoon, around the time I published.

“None of the images distributed by AP showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad,” an Associated Press spokesman said, according to the Daily Beast. “It’s been our policy for years that we refrain from moving deliberately provocative images.”

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