[new cruelty]

38 papers. Its a start.

[new cruelty]

One of the 15 papers, The Anniston (Ala.) Star expressed public dismay with the vote yesterday -- saying the decision amounted to censorship.

hehe... dems are silly.

[atomicpossum]

One of the 15 papers, The Anniston (Ala.) Star (Click for QuikCap), expressed public dismay with the vote yesterday -- saying the decision amounted to censorship.

Will someone loan their copy of the dictionary to The Anniston (Ala.) Star long enough to look up the definition of 'censorship', please?

[Dog Gone]

The Continental head said he doesn't know exactly when "Doonesbury" will leave the package; he's currently polling clients to see if they want to replace it with "Agnes," "Get Fuzzy," "Pickles," "Zits," or another comic.

Get Fuzzy is pretty good. Pearls Before Swine is better, though.

[randog]

"...Newspapers need to think of readers first, or they will continue to struggle."

Uh, isn't that what they're doing by canning the strip and putting in something the readers might want?

[prion]

As previously reported, Star Publisher H. Brandt Ayers e-mailed Wilkerson to say he and his paper's editors "strongly object to an obviously political effort to silence a minority point of view."

Surely many, many minority points of view don't get heard. If you're in the minority, it comes with the territory.

"This is wrong, offensive to First Amendment freedoms."

What part of "Congress shall make no law..." is so difficult for these people? Nothing in the Constitution guarantees everyone a right to be heard, or promises your boss won't fire you if you say something he doesn't like, or your customers won't refuse your goods if you offend them.

[RightWingAtheist]

It should have been dropped yeara ago...not for being "controversial" (it would just parrot whatever Anthony Lewis or Molly Ivins said in their columns the week before) but because it isn't any damn good!

[beelzepug]

It isn't funny. I never thought it was. On the other hand, Mallard Fillmore.....

[Larry Lucido]

The Anniston Star was a liberal rag when I lived there in 1983. Sounds like it hasn't changed a bit.

[tracer]

He, he. The Market, she has spoken -- yet again....

[Liberty Valance]

If the Anniston Star wants it so bad then by all means they should run it on their opinion page like many other newspapers do. The people that run (and read) "funny pages" just want funny. Is that so hard to understand? Politics are often divisive...funny is universal.

[bondjamesbond]

How about replacing him with Day by Day by Chris Muir?

It's funny and the guy can actually draw!

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

Jane Pauley is said to be furious.

[summer]

I post a lot of editorial cartoon threads, so I'll tell you another survey I'd like to see taken: Someone should ask local editorial cartoonists to publicly disclose their policies for choosing which schools in a school district these local editorial cartoonists will visit.

And, specifically, ask why some schools's students get a visit each and every year from the local editorial cartoonist, while other schools get ZERO, or, ONE, and that's it forever.

I will give you a little hint why I believe this happens: if the art teacher at the school happens to be more open minded than a Communist, then the number of visits that teacher's school receives varies from ZERO to ONE. And, no more.

Not a fair system, but one based on the local editorial cartoonist's "discretion" if that cartoonist happens to perfer to only offer repeat visits to the students of Communist teachers. That kind of system may leave some teachers little room to feel sympathy for Doonesbury being dumped.

Who knows, if more local editorial cartoonists were dumped, and more balancedf editorial cartoonists hired, maybe more students in schools would get visits from local editorial cartoonists. And, the new system for deciding these visits would be public - and fair.

Not likely to happen anytime soon though. A hundred more Doonesbury's will need to be publicly dumped before someone gets the message to look at their own local newspaper's editorial cartoonist's secret policies for school visits.

In some school districts the current policy is as simple minded as this: if the art teacher is a Dem, then the local cartoonist will consider making multiple visits on an annual basis. But if the art teacher is suspected of being anything other than that, then, the local editorial cartoonist makes only one visit, and wants a glowing letter of praise to his publisher from the art teacher to prevent any questions in the future as to why he will depreive these students in the future.

In short, welcome to Cuba, Mr. Trudeau. Many teachers are already suffering there.

[summer]

Re my post #19 - BTW, as people can see from all the varied points of view I have posted from editorial cartoonists, not all editorial cartoonists are the way I desribed in my post #19. But, some of them are - and, the fact they will deliberately hurt students, solely because of these cartoonists' political bias against the students' teacher, is a real shame, IMO.

[Sloth]

One of the 15 papers, The Anniston (Ala.) Star (Click for QuikCap), expressed public dismay with the vote yesterday -- saying the decision amounted to censorship.

I must have missed the part involving government agencies.

[asgardshill]

Watch them replace it with "The Boondocks" ...

[Rockitz]

This is a beautiful thing!

[Rockitz]

We need to go after Ted Rall too!