If I was a newspaper editor in Jerusalem in the First Century A.D. I would have put Jesus Christ's execution on the front page with the best artist's rendering I could find.

That would be the editor of my local paper, Connecticut Post Editor James H. Smith, "who is also president of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors."

Yet in their print versions, they only showed the unjarring pre-execution Saddam photo.

Kind of says it all as to what kind of journalism we have to put up with here in this state, doesn't it?

Today's Post reads:

We recognize that there are some subjects not appropriate for publication in a local newspaper and editors here have had long discussions when it comes to photos that would offend some readers...To date, we have printed a photo of Saddam with the noose around his neck on our front page. We had a couple of complaints, but a consensus of editors here thought it was the right call.

Yet online this same day, they changed their policy:

For the past two days, editors at newspapers all over the country have been struggling with the decision to publish (or post) the video of Saddam Hussein's execution. After lengthy discussions here at the Post, we decided to post the official and unofficial videos of the execution.

So they can buy some of those tabloid-fed eyeballs that they're afraid of losing to competitors.

After all, what do they care that the Iraqi official who shot the video illegally was just arrested?

Funny, isn't it? They'll post the links to this video, but not to the clips from the documentary "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against The West."

And people actually believe that most of the Connecticut media doesn't tilt left.