This just in, cont'd

Again in anticipation of stories that break more slowly when they originate in another language, the deputy editor of the French newspaper Liberation has just told the BBC that his paper will publish 2 of the Danish cartoons tomorrow, including one of the "most offensive" ones (presumably either the "turban"-bomb or virgins image).

In explaining their decisions not to reprint the cartoons, the BBC website and Simon Kellner of the Independent have both drawn a distinction between images that they commission (and would therefore want to publish and be damned) from images already printed in another newspaper whose additional dissemination would be more of a headache than it's worth. In what is a confusing issue reflecting conflicting rights, this is not a bad middle ground.

UPDATE: Here's Liberation's editorial explaining their decision.