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One of Denmark’s most widely respected and distinguished journalists, Samuel Rachlin, strikes back at 60 Minutes for its hit piece on the Danish people over the Mohammed Cartoons. An excerpt:

The picture of Denmark presented by CBS and its 60 Minutes magazine on American TV as a country of aggrandizing, arrogant bigots, blond models and happy-go-lucky fools out of tune and touch with the real world has nothing in common with the country I call home. Moreover, it is home for immigrants from all over the world of all faiths and cultures who have found happiness and a safe haven for themselves and their families taking full advantage of what Denmark has to offer. They are doing much better than one would think after having watched Bob Simon’s story The State of Denmark on 60 Minutes.

This kind of journalism does not have much in common with the tradition of Ed R. Murrow or what his associate, Fred Friendly, taught me at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University when I took my degree there in the late 70ies. The snide asides and sarcasm that permeated the narrative do not mix with the high quality journalism I have learned to expect from 60 Minutes. What we got was a presentation so biased, distorted and corrupted by so many inaccuracies and innuendos that it was impossible to recognize Denmark.

Read the whole thing.

CBS, over to you.

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Meanwhile, there was a Sammenhold/solidarity rally for Denmark in Chicago today. Details here and here. More here and more photos here. And here.

Andrew Marcus has Pajamas Media video of the Chicago rally.

And Daily Illini student newspaper editor Acton Gorton has been fired for publishing the Mohammed Cartoons.

Where’s the ACLU?

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