Posted on 02/27/2009 3:45:41 PM PST by slomark
Many times over the years, newspapers have chosen not to run Doonesbury comic strips for one reason or another. Creator Garry Trudeau often focuses on topics that editors and readers find offensive.
Today, the Washington Post was so offended that it refused to run the strip. What was the topic they found so offensive? Was it sex? Drugs? Crude language? No, the topic was the recent layoffs at the Washington Post. Instead, they ran a “Doonesbury Flashback” strip–a rerun.
So much for the WaPo, that vaunted bastion of free speech and truth.
The real question, though, should be, why does any newspaper still run Doonesbury? It hasn’t been funny in at least 35 years. It’s the Janeane Garafalo of comic strips.
Here is today’s censored strip.
(Excerpt) Read more at ihatethemedia.com ...
LOL! I am hoping Wa Po croaks soon too.
This is kind of funny. A paper I don’t read censors a comic strip I don’t read, and I end up reading the strip. And it wasn’t funny. Or insightful. Or worth reading.
Chuckle ... I wonder why they didn’t want to run it? Fair and balanced is so out of style, isn’t it.
And in other good news the Rocky Mountain News has announced it is closing its doors. One more commie rag bites the dust.
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