Profile in cowardice: UK Telegraph blurs, crops out Muhammad cartoon while reporting on Paris shooting

Tweeters are appalled at coverage from The Telegraph (U.K.) of today’s terror attack in Paris, and rightly so, for photos they’ve posted that blur or crop out images of the allegedly offensive Charlie Hebdo magazine covers:

https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/552814280471367680

https://twitter.com/BklynMiddleton/status/552826800406294528

@Drac49 @KulganofCrydee @Telegraph Their goal is intimidation & fear, to change how we live. Blurring it out does exactly that #CharlieHebdo

— Kyle Frese (@HKFrese) January 7, 2015

@Telegraph You're blurring images that offend Muslims? So you're cowards, unlike @Charlie_Hebdo_ . What a sad state in the #UK. #BanIslam

— ._. (@CrushKillRepeat) January 7, 2015

They’ve also posted a photo of Charlie Hebdo Editor-in-Chief Stéphane Charbonnier, who was killed in today’s attack, that crops out the cover of the magazine:

#CharlieHebdo cartoonist was on al Qaeda's wanted list: http://t.co/nEojRxbetR (Pic: EPA) pic.twitter.com/m8oO7gnXJf

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) January 7, 2015

Cowards.

Here are some non-cropped pics from the same shoot, which as you can see was designed to show off the cover of the magazine:

“I don’t feel as though I’m killing someone with a pen." -Stephane Charbonnier 1967-2015 #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/RmJlpSsaNt

— brent bambury (@notrexmurphy) January 7, 2015

RIP Charlie Hebdo’s editor Stephane “Charb” Charbonnier. He and 11 colleagues were murdered by Islamic terrorists. pic.twitter.com/Va7uK05oRY

— Live to Hike (@sierra_hiker) January 7, 2015

And it looks like The Telegraph has pulled the blurred image altogether from their live-blog coverage of attack:

Profile in cowardice: UK Telegraph blurs, crops out Muhammad cartoon while reporting on Paris shooting

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