Not Just a Problem of Ethics
In its edition of last week, Newsweek included an illustration of the Prophet Muhammad. As a result, that edition of the magazine did not circulate in Indonesia, although the press council says the article itself did not breach the standards of journalistic ethics.
February 19, 2002
Around 10,000 copies of the magazine Newsweek, edition of February 11, 2002, were left piled up in the offices of PT Indoprom in Jakarta, the magazine's distributor in Indonesia. Even when the next edition, dated February 18, began to circulate last Thursday, the previous issue was still left stacked up where it was. It was not that there was anything substantially wrong with the articles in it. The distributor was simply too scared to sell
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