…this link will take you to the latest copy. But then, you probably already all read it online anyway, and the print censorship just enhances the growing irrelevancy of print media.
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My morning newspapers are two for two … sort of. The San Francisco Chronicle is simply running the strips as usual in the comics section. The Sacramento Bee is also running the strips, but not in the comics section. The editorial weenies at the Bee decided to run a notice at the top of the funnies page:
Can you say “wusses”?
What’s a newspaper?
but if you are trying to read it from work and your employers’ firewall….. Bzzzzzt! Click! Not suitable for business acc…
The Columbus Dispatch has a Doonesbury Flashback. I cancelled my subscription. I nearly cancelled it last month because they changed their policy on vacation delivery stoppages. If your stoppage is less than 30 days, you still have to pay. I was going to cancel the next time I travelled but this moved it up.
The Seattle Times has moved the strip from the Comics page to the Editorial page for the duration. Honestly, I think that is where Doonesbury belongs: it usually more editorial and social commentary than kiddy stuff. Then again, it is a nice balance to the conservativism often expressed in Shoe, B.C. and other strips.
Nope, it turns out the Seattle Times lied when they said they would be relocating the strip and showing the “controversial” series; they are re-running an old series. Thanks for the link.
Gregory, how is the conservatism expressed in those other comics not “editorial and social commentary”? That is right-wing framing: “political” vs. “normal,” rather than progressive vs. conservative.
WashPo is running it (at least, they are on-line). Probably not a surprise given the locale and paper’s reputation.
Oops, my bad. The Seattle Times is running the replacement strip on the comics page, and the actual strip in the national news section (page A2, for those of you who read the print edition of the Seattle Times.)
1. Zeno- “because of graphic imagery and offensive language”. Translation, if you disagree with me it’s graphic and offensive.
5. Gregory- the New York Daily News publishes Mallard Duck as a comic strip, a loyal continuing Republican advertisement.
And the previous day’s strip neatly sums up the Obama “problem”.
Again.
@Ms. Daisy Cutter #7, @bahrfeldt #10 – My point exactly. As long as other social commentary and editorial cartoons are on comics page, then Doonesbury belongs on the comics page.
Graphic imagery and offensive language?
?
Is somebody trying to kill free speech by abusing it until it curls up and dies?
You mean something as mild as that can get censored?
Atrios, htis morning, said it best: “Where we are. Mandatory state rape is much less offensive than pointing out that something is mandatory state rape.”
Remember it is never the role of the News Media is disrupt, offend, or challenge the status quo. What do people expect some actual information and reporting of issues regardless of who is offended? That’s what the Daily Show is for. Sheesh!
The Dallas Morning News, which was one of the papers rumored to be dropping the strip last week had a statement on why they are not doing so: http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2012/03/some-papers-areant-running-doo.html
The editor says the strips are “fair comment.”
I read the funnies every morning as a kid. (As an adult who no longer receives a newspaper, I still read webcomics every morning.)
When I was too little to understand it, I just didn’t read Doonesbury. I’m pretty sure that if no one was making a big deal out of it, kids would just skip right over that strip, like they probably do with Mary Worth and a number of others.
Strips like B.C. are a lot more sinister, since they look like kids’ comics, but are just as political as Doonesbury, as others have mentioned.
What is this “print media” of which you speak?
Five minutes before I saw this post, I called up our local newspaper and cancelled my subscription because of this. And I told them that this was the reason. The only way to make these companies see the error of their ways is to hit them in the cash register.
I’ve never understood why any paper put Doonesbury in the comics section rather than the editorial section; do they not ever read the comics in the first place?
Happy to report that both of the local dailies are printing the strip…but I live in a pretty liberal pocket of an otherwise fairly conservative region. I do look forward to the outraged letters to the editor from our more “socially conservative” neighbors.
I stopped subscribing to my local rags a long time ago, but they’re both running the strip online. The papers are terrible, but I do like to annoy conservatives by writing fact-laden liberal letters to the editor.
Speaking of newspapers, this poll on that misogynist Limbaugh needs a good ‘ol Pharyngulatin’. The question is “Is Limbaugh Toast?” and “Yes–he is a bigmouth bully” is tied with “No–The Democrats are destroying him!” for first place. Let’s show them what we think of Rush. There are only a few hundred votes, so it’ll be easy. And they print the results in the paper.
You can watch some of the fallout from this strip at Doonesbury’s Blowback, it has some “pearls” like the following posts:
etc, etc…
Luckily, some rational replies can be found there too.
The Edmonton journal published Doonesbury in its usual place without any warning.
The San Diego Union Tribune is pulling this week’s Doonesbury strip with a sanctimonious explanation about how the subject is “not appropriate” and “crossed a line”. On the same day of the first missed strip, they also printed ads from the the following: Cheetah’s Strip Club, the Body Shop (for “total adult entertainment”), Deja vu Showgirls (“totally nude”) and an erectile dysfunction clinic. HYPOCRITICAL MUCH??