Cinncy Inquirer dumps 'Boondocks' because too controversial

[Mairead]

And for those outraged that the low-rated Doonesbury survived while Boondocks didn't, we made the decision to drop Boondocks because we did not want to keep publishing a comic that we regularly needed to censor. During the past year, Boondocks was substituted a number of times because it was deemed inappropriate for a family newspaper. And not just this family newspaper. Editors across the country were making the same decisions.

Our policy is that we publish a comic strip or we don't. Once we start pulling specific strips, as well as entire weeks' worth, it is time to drop that strip. Although Boondocks has its fans, many of you were uncomfortable with it, and at times we were, too.

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/01/04/tem_tem1comic.html

[slor]

1. No surprise here...

this is a conservative city. Dumbya made some of his most hawkish statements about Iraq here last fall. I dropped my subscription when they endorsed that idiot in 2000.

[ClintonTyree]

2. The truth...............

is often controversial. We can't let our children be exposed to the truth, can we? My Gawd, think of the implications.

[Racenut20]

3. Actually I thought todays episode hilarious.

[Qutzupalotl]

4. Here it is...

...works for me!

[gristy]

5. HAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA

Funny!

[SoCalDem]

6. Yep.. the truth can sometimes be "uncomfortable"

so naturally, the solution is to GET RID OF IT :eyes:

Too bad the editorial staff did not just write a column explaining to the dolts out there, that freedom of speech is kind of "the law", and that a paper does not have to agree with everything in it..:eyes:..

[Cleita]

7. I get it on my homepage. I suppose Cinnys could do the

same. Censorship stinks.

[Muddleoftheroad]

8. I love Boondocks

But he spent way too much time in an endless personal attack on Condaleeza Rice. You don't have to like her, but focusing on her dating life on the comics page is a bit much.

[dreissig]

10. Condi Needs a Sex Life

Having a sex life will lessen Condi's need to promote killing. Make Love, Not War.

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[guajira]

9. My Paper Dropped it - Now I read it on the internet every day!

My conservative Central Florida paper dropped Boondocks a long time ago, and carries Doonesberry on the editorial page!

I set up a Yahoo personal page, and one of the items I included is Boondocks.

[baldguy]

11. Aaron McGruder quote

"How's that for irony: We live in a time when common-sense statements seem radical."

[Terwilliger]

12. "...and at times we were, too"

At times, I'm uncomfortable with the passive fascism that pervades the media-industrial complex in this country.

[ElementaryPenguin]

13. Bullshit! Whadaya wanna bet this "family newspaper" splashed

Those extremely ghastly photos of Saddams dead sons all over their front page?!! Fuck these Bushler enabling media whores!!

[David Zephyr]

19. Excellent Observation, E.P.

How true!

[Pithlet]

14. I'm very surprised ours still carries it.

Hopefully it will continue to, but I'm sure they're getting pressure as well.

[thinkingwoman]

16. what will we tell the children?!?

Lord knows we can't tell them the TRUTH...especially on the funny pages.

As a publisher/editor of a midwestern weekly, I am once again embarrassed by the non-journalistic decisions that so-called journalists keep making in this through the looking glass world we live in.

ugh.

[Bombero1956]

18. What are the chances

that the Post will pick it up just to needle the Enquirer?

[thinkingwoman]

23. I don't know

that would be in keeping with the way newspapers do business though. Given a chance to needle our competition, most of us will jump right up.

[David Zephyr]

17. Boondocks Brought Me Back to the Funnies!

Aaron McGruder is a genius with a great heart...and one very good-looking guy, too!

[Jane Roe]

20. Other bad behavior by the Cincy Inquirer

In 1998 they published a great long article about immoral business practices (in Central America) on the part of Cincinnati-based Chiquita Company. Not to be cryptic these immoral business practices amounted to modern slavery in Central America on plantations.

The * hit the fan (lawsuit or threatened lawsuit) and then the Inquirer hung its investigative reporter. I was so disgusted by the paper and the blase attitude of Cincinnati citizens that it contributed to my decision (a good one!) to leave the city.

[Hailtothechimp]

21. Cincy callers to cspan (Washington Journal) are ALWAYS freepers

So this news doesn't surprise me much.

[solinvictus]

22. Local censorship

Back last spring, the Chattanooga Times-Free Press dropped the Doonesbury that referred to Bushco as imperialist chicken hawks. They used the same line, it's a family paper. Every time they call soliciting a subscription I mention that incident as to why I will never take their paper again.