Boston Globe pulls 4/23 print Doonesbury because missing leg "SOB" comment

[papau]

[OpSomBlood]

1. I'm surprised it wasn't because of the cigarette. n/t

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. This censorship is to Goebells for me.

Boston Globe: "Son of A BITCH"!!!!!!


:argh:

[GainesT1958]

3. Of all papers...

Never would have thought the Globe would cave in to the "Michael Powell Moral Majority" on that one!:mad:

B-)

[w13rd0]

4. What's a soldier supposed to say...

...when they wake up and discover that they lost a leg to a war based on lies? "Shucky darn!"

[Gunit_Sangh]

16. re: what's a soldier to say ...

Thank God for George Bush's leadership ... It's too bad I only have two legs/arms to lose for my country

</sarcasm>

[Noxmtbnk]

5. Thanks for the chuckle... n/t

"The world does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
-- George Bernard Shaw

[newyawker99]

18. Hi Noxmtbnk!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[MissMarple]

27. Thanks for the perspective.

Welcome to DU.

[Dr Fate]

6. Pretty savy of Gary- he KNOWS MORE people will see it if censored...

I never would have seen this comic, had it not been censored. Nothing makes somthing more popular than to censor it.

People might make a big deal about it- bring comparisons to the Stern/ FCC, thing etc...

Gart's no fool- he did this to get people talking about this comic panel...

[DarkPhenyx]

7. My first thought was...

..."Ya know? I think BD might pull through this afterall."

[Bolo Boffin]

9. First, Boopsie shuts down his football team, and now his leg?

The Globe is lucky Trudeau shut BD off after only one panel.

[DarkPhenyx]

12. The homecoming should be interesting.

I'm wondering if Gary is going to go the whole way and have BD begin focusing on the important things in life or, conversely, have him "retreat into something else".

[NashVegas]

8. What the Hell is Going on in Mass?

John Wesley Harding was supposed to play at the Peabody-Essex and lost the gig when the board got uptight over his song "Sluts," (which is not necessarily about loose women).

http://www.johnwesleyharding.com/mb/board1/105.shtml

[Tuttle]

10. My paper CT Post (Bridgeport, CT) also pulled it

They ran the Mallard Fillmore as usual: dissing Kerry over snowboard/Secret Service SOB comment -- incredible irony there.

Especially if you factor in Condosleaza Lice and her own willingness to accept responsibilty (another aspect of the MF strip).

Tut-tut

[Gothmog]

11. This is stupid

There is no excuse for censoring this strip for that comment.

[walmartsucks]

13. I for one

Think that this is not that big a deal if the strip is published in a group with the rest of the comic strips. I wouldn't want my 7 year old reading Garfield, then Beetle Bailey, then "Son of a Bitch!" with her breakfast. However, because it is more political commentary than comic strip, newspapers should print it on the same page as editorials or letters to the editor. The vast majority of young kids don't read that section of the paper. Problem solved. Leaving it out of the paper entirely is just stupid.

[Kool Kitty]

They aren't censoring this because they are afraid

that your seven-year-old will happen to read it. They are censoring it because everyone knows that all patriotic adults cannot bear to see this kind of pro-enemy propaganda. They are afraid that if something gets printed that might let the reader entertain one tiny thought that this war is not as originally advertised, the reader might just start to question the logic of this administration, and might just figure that the country that needs a regime change just might be us.

[radiclib]

22. The Globe isn't like that, but they are hypocritical

The Globe is probably the only daily in NE worth a damn, and they're pretty consistently editorially liberal and anti-war. But they embarrass themselves from time to time with this sort of crap, leaving themselves open to right-wing charges of hypocricy. They quite often use quotes in news stories with words like "bullshit", and then they ban their sportswriters from appearing on the local sports radio station because they find some of the content "offensive", and now this absurd nonsense. I'm sure the 7-year olds who always get a howl out of "Mallard Fillmore" need to be protected from the word "bitch", which is apparently only acceptable when referring to women in rap songs.:shrug:

[stepnw1f]

14. Maybe SOB Was Intentional

Maybe this will give the cartoon more exposure?

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

15. Did this happen last time, too?

I think it was about a year ago. There was a Doonesbury strip dealing with W's medicare plan (or something like that) that included the phrase "Time to kick some terminally ill ass!" Did any papers pull that one?

[BadGimp]

17. Werid cuz Get Fuzzy is also on a IRaq returnee missing a leg

Previous: 4/19



Todays:


If you want to check out the strip:
http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/index.html

[Palacsinta]

19. My AM newspaper in Lanc. County, PA

(the "liberal" one, as opposed to the conservative PM paper) printed it with "Son of a B......!" 'Course, Doonesbury is shown on our editorial page, not with the other comics.

[cureautismnow]

24. The Orlando Slantinel Followed Suit...

...except they used hyphens, "Son of a B----." ;(

[central scrutinizer]

25. same here

Eugene OR Register Guard

[Citizen Daryl]

29. Trudeau Did Not Authorise Censorship Of The Strip

... and at first the syndicator was not allowing an archived strip to be run in place of the current strip, but they eventually caved for some papers.

[Soloflecks]

20. So these returning injured soldiers

are just supposed to disappear under overpasses and homeless shelters like those who came back damaged after Nam. Wouldn't want to acknowledge what they're going through or we might get uncomfortable. Let's just look the other way and pretend they aren't there. :grr:

[Toucano]

21. Aren't you glad Skinner chose not to ban "bitch"

from DU?

We'd have looked pretty silly criticizing The Globe if we had censored it too.

[dflprincess]

23. I am pleased to report

the Minneapolis Star Tribune ran it.

[BiggJawn]

26. Lafayette, Indiana "Journal and Courier" censored it.

Posted a panel that said there "was language that some readers might find offensive" in today's strip and we could go to ucomix' web page if we wanted to read it.

Now, should I write a LTTE along the lines of "I didn't see anything in that strip that your typical Tippecanoe County resident would find offensive. Please tell me where they used the words 'George Bush' and 'War Criminal' in the same sentence"...

What a bunch of low-lifes. Like not printing the strip was gonna hide it anyway. But just wait, we'll have Mallard Fillmore, a whole fuckin' 1/2 page of him this Sunday...

[Citizen Daryl]

28. Tennessean Pulled It Also, Because It's A "Family Paper"

...but they seem to have no problem running ads for XXX film stars appearing live at strip joints in the sports section.

This will be the topic of the letter to the editor I'm going to be writing to them this weekend. Hypocrites.