Fairfax was so proud of Sheehans column it printed letters the next day praising his journalism. Now they seem frozen in damage control modeThe Sydney Morning Herald’s response to Paul Sheehan’s inflammatory column about Muslim males brutally raping and bashing an off-duty nurse – which quickly proved to be palpably counterfeit – has been to remain silent.
Sheehan,who has a history of denigrating the Muslim community in Australia, was allowed to pen a mea culpa for Thursday’s paper and to amend his original column which was so graphic in its details of an anal, andal and vaginal rape by Arabic-speaking men that it brought many readers to tears. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com