Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:04 PM
Censorship, Cowardice, or Good Taste?
The L.A. Press Club is pleased to host a lively panel discussion debating the ongoing fallout of the infamous Danish cartoons mocking the prophet Muhammad. Were newspapers prudent or cowardly for refusing to reprint the images? Do smaller publications and websites who reproduced them deserve praise or scorn? Are Muslims truly offended at all depictions of all religious figures? Is it censorship when private entities like Borders Bookstores refuse to carry issues of the Free Inquiry that include the cartoons?
These questions and more will be pondered on Thursday, May 11, at 7:30 p.m., in the L.A. Press Club’s headquarters at 4773 Hollywood Blvd., with a reception beginning at 6:30. Panelists include (but are not limited to):
Eddie Tabash — Chair of Center For Inquiry-West, constitutional lawyer, and chair of the national legal committee of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. www.tabash.com.
Edina Lekovic — Communications director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (www.mpac.org).
Brian Doherty — Senior editor, Reason magazine (www.reason.com), and author of the forthcoming Radicals for Capitalism: A History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement.
Moderated by Matt Welch (www.mattwelch.com), assistant editorial pages editor of the Los Angeles Times.
Co-sponsored by PR Newswire.
Where: L.A. Press Club, 4773 Hollywood Blvd., parking in the back.
When: Thursday, May 11, 7:30; reception at 6:30.
Price: Free for members, $10 for non-members.
RSVP, to: rsvp@lapressclub.org.
