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Google Fund To Pay For 1 Million Copies of Charlie Hebdo
BarbaraHudson writes The Register is reporting that money set aside from a deal with France's publishers is going to pay for the printing of 1 million copies of next weeks' Charlie Hebdo, "Eight of the 12 people killed were journalists attending an editorial meeting, however, a senior editor and the magazine's chief executive were in London at the time of the attack. They have vowed to do a massive 1 million copy print run next week – Charlie Hebdo's circulation is normally around 60k. The cash will come from €60m fund (€20m per year over three years) that supports digital publishing innovation. The fund was set up in 2013 following negotiations between Google and the French government as a remedy to demands from European publishers that Google pay for displaying news snippets in its search results.
Will it have a caricature of Muhammad?
That's what needs to happen, millions and millions of Muhammad cartoons all over the World.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
I vote for a cartoon of Mohammed and his six-year-old bride Aisha on the front cover.
To be fair, the marriage wasn't actually consummated until Aisha was nine.
The shorter than usual survivor edition is being sold internationally next Friday. I heard that Easons will stock it in Ireland. Google to see if your country has a retailer for it?
They didn't run any ads. Freedom is difficult when you depend of large companies.
Google's giving them $300K, but the government is giving them $1.2M.
While freedom of speech is a law that needs to be upheld, how many people would be happy with the government (or google?) giving an organization like stormfront a million dollars to publish pictures of Obama with a tail and a banana in one hand?
Charlie Hebdo is a cultural icon in France. Besides that, if you don't follow french politics/discourse you won't get most of their jokes. Here's an interview with R. Crumb which puts some perspective on the issue: http://observer.com/2015/01/le...
the gist of it:
Q: These guys were not trying not to offend, and that’s what an American media-conditioned mind cannot understand. The idea that yes, you offend those who abuse power.
A: [Laughs.] No, they can’t.
Charlie Hebdo, like most papers, survives on advertising
Wrong. Charlie Hebdo is one of the rare newspapers in France (another example is le Canard Enchaîné) with zero ads, and which survive only from their readership.
Almost but not quite. Anyone that doesn't follow their particular brand of Islam is a target. This includes other Muslims. Perhaps you haven't been paying attention to the news.
The hero of Vincennes is as much of a target as the people he saved.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
> You can't excuse what Charlie Hebdo are doing, no more than you can excuse what these people did to them,
Insults aren't the same as murder in any sane or civilized society.
Liberty is a difficult virtue sometimes (like any virtue).
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
You can't excuse what Charlie Hebdo are doing, no more than you can excuse what these people did to them, but Charlie Hebdo themselves are responsible for provoking this tragedy.
No, it is people like you that cause problems. You are one of these bigoted fucks. Here's a hint - don't fucking read it if it insults you! Capish?
Blaming Charlie Hedbo is like blaming Jyoti Singh Pandey for being raped and murdered. People that think like this should be rounded up, and shown the great French invention - the guillotine.
So get it through your thick skull. You have a right to be left alone, to believe whatever the fuck you want. But that stops once you stop tolerating each others' speech. Read that again - it says tolerating. And that is defined by the law of the land.
>I'm left wondering if you and your
>brain-damaged, bigoted,
>hypocritical peers
The only one fitting this description is you.
>will ever wake up and have the
>decency and manners to stop
>insulting moslems and islam.
No. Why should anyone stop doing that? Jews, Christians, Homosexuals, pretty much everyone gets mocked.
Perhaps Muslim countries should stop killing Infidels, LGBTQs, stop degrading women, stop censoring the press and stop being mediaeval theocracies. You know all those reason why Muslims are being mocked.
Oh, I know there are a large number of decent, nice and friendly, tolerant and all around pleasant Muslims. Some of the nicest people I knew are Muslims. Perhaps it's time you stop uniting with the asshole Muslims against the "evil" West. We are not against Muslims. We are against asshole Muslims and their over sensitiveness and their habit to try to enforce their rules elsewhere.
>You don't insult people over their
>bald heads, black skin, or
>overweight body, or their ethnicity,
Wrong. That's being done all the time. And no one gets killed for doing so. If you think it's right to kill or hate because you religion is mocked there is something wrong - with you and your religion.
>so why do you think it's ok to insult
> an entire group of people over
> their religion?
Because it is ok. I couldn't give a flying duck if your religion is being mocked. I couldn't care less.
>You speak of Google becoming a
>"target", but did you ever realize '>that moslem and islams have been
>targets for years, for insults,
>ridicule, taunting, mocking and
>provocation?
So what??? No mocking can ever justify violence. Never ever.
>Moslems disagree over islam,
>moslems have concerns over islam,
>moslems debate islam, and
>moslems criticize islam, so why
>can't you?
Most people are not Muslims?
And Islam is being discussed. But satire are a form of debate. That's what you don't get.
>Why do you and little shit
>magazines like Charlie Hebdo have
>to stoop to the level of small
>children and insult with the only
>intent of provoking an angry
>reaction?
Because we can. Because we don't live in a theocracy. Because the Muslim rules don't apply here. End of story.
>Is that what democracy and
>freedom of speech means to you,
>to be reserved to insult anyone or
>a group of people for anything you
>want, as opposed to sensibly
>debate it?
Yes. To have the possibility to do so if we want. Yes. Next question?
>You can't excuse what Charlie
>Hebdo are doing,
Yes we can. It's called freedom of speech and freedom of expression and freedom of the press. Like in any decent country.
>no more than you can excuse what
>these people did to them,
Cartoons are not equal to mass murder. The end.
>but Charlie Hebdo themselves are
>responsible for provoking this
>tragedy.
Victim blaming at its finest.
Piss off, shut the fuck up, get the fuck out of here and don't come back.
1) Set up website
2) Prophet!
3) Profit?