The paper’s opinions page editor, Chuck Prochaska, also was suspended for his role in publishing the cartoons. He declined to be reinstated, the board says.
Prochaska says he and Gorton moved quickly to publish the cartoons because they were newsworthy.
“We had a news story on our hands, with violence erupting about imagery, but you can’t show it because of a taboo, because of a taboo that’s not a western taboo but a Muslim taboo?” he says. “That’s a blow to journalism.”
— Associated Press
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