weekly 20/11/15

How news organisations around the world have responded to Paris attacks

This article conveys how different news papers have reacted to the tragic Paris attacks. 

The Guardian

To answer Isis’s declaration of war – if it was indeed that – would be to compliment the group, to grant it dignity and accord it the status of a state, reads the Guardian editorial on Friday’s deadly terrorist attacks in Paris.

The Washington Post

The attacks by Isis on Paris, Beirut and in the Sinai were aimed at “everyone who aspires to modernity and cherishes a free and open society,” writes the Washington Post editorial board.

The Wall Street Journal

“The Paris attack is in some ways even more alarming than 9/11,” writes the Wall Street Journal.

“Airplane hijackings have largely been stopped through enhanced security. Paris suggests that Islamic State has embarked on a strategy of urban unconventional warfare wherever it is able across the west.”

Boris Johnson in the Telegraph

“It is plainly no use hoping that the problem of Daesh-inspired terrorism is going away, writes Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, for the Telegraph.

“As we deliberate on how to respond, it is essential to be cautious, and to be pragmatic – and yet to use every weapon at our disposal.”

Daily Mail criticised by social media users for cartoon on refugees

Thousands have retweeted a post comparing the Mail's cartoon with that of an Austrian newspaper's from 1939

The bottom half of a cartoon published by Das Kleine Blatt in 1939 Das Kleine Blatt

Comparisons between a cartoon published by The Daily Mail and an anti-Semitic Viennese cartoon published before the Second World War have been drawn by social media users.

Social media users have strongly criticised the Mail’s cartoon, with a tweet comparing the two attracting thousands of retweets. This uproar and questioning a huge media conglomerate can only have been brought to the attention of the public through Twitter the social media platform. "We are not going to dignify these absurd comments which wilfully misrepresent this cartoon apart from to say that we have not received a single complaint from any reader," a Daily Mail spokesperson told The Independent.