This is just kinda sad.
Related story: BD loses a leg.
Am I the only one who sees the irony in this not getting published?
Related story: BD loses a leg.
Am I the only one who sees the irony in this not getting published?
This week's Doonsbury not being published in some papers.
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UnatcoAgent
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Yea, pretty hypocritical. Especially compared to the front page lately.
Was wierd thopugh, the way they jumped from reruns straight into BD being evacuated ... nothing about how it happened.
First time I've ever seen BD without a helmet.
Was wierd thopugh, the way they jumped from reruns straight into BD being evacuated ... nothing about how it happened.
First time I've ever seen BD without a helmet.
Who exactly do they think is reading Doonesbury? Kids? Give me a break. Either they fear the Ashcroft, or their editorial-board is full of asshats. Take your pick.
-geoff
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Well, this is a small-town CO newspaper from what I can tell. Their readers are likely very conservative.
Don Vito Corleone
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This is really shocking to me, and even though I'm not a Doonesbury fan, I would boycott any paper who refused to publish these strips. That is clearly more a function of politics than of any genuine concern about graphic violence (if their worry were publishing a violent strip amongst other comics read by kids, they could just move it to the financial page or something, as many papers do anyway).
I suppose I'm completely de-sensitized or something, because I find that comic to be -9% violent. I hate easily offended people.
I agree, I just don't get the rationale behind choosing not to publish the strip. If you're going to support a war, you should have an understanding of what exactly you're supporting. I know this is only a comic strip, but it's still a means of conveying that message.
Vic
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I would see this as a lack of their convictions. As a symbol of their fear.
War is the harshest of realities, and requires resolves and will to win. When we lost thousands upon thousands of soldiers in WWII, very few people complained because we knew our cause was righteous.
Such must not be the case in Iraq...
iamwiz82
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Personally, I think making a comic about war to be in somewhat bad taste, since normally the comic is read for it's humorous outlook. I would have a problem if they were not reporting stories of deaths in "rebuilding" of Iraq, but not for blocking a downer of a comic in an otherwise upbeat section. I just think that this kind of thing should not be expressed in comics. Hence the reason I despise that stupid racially motivated strip, I cannot think of the name at this time.
You're thinking of Boondocks.
Anyway, both of these are essentially political cartoons and are often placed with the other editorial stuff rather than with the rest of the comics.
Kyteland
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Every time I've seen Doonesbury (at least the Sunday comic) has been with the rest of the comics. It has no place there. It belongs on the editorial page with the rest of the political cartoons.
Two off-topic points...
Governments have a long history of trying to "protect" the public from the true realities of war to prevent loss of support for their policies. For example, I read a story not to long ago (but don't know where) that during WWI, the brits took special care to bring their war dead & casuaties back to out-of-the-way ports in the dead of night so the public at large wouldn't have an understanding of the enormous casuaties they were taking.
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I also read somewhere that the number of amputations from the Iraq war is significantly higher then previous conflicts. They attribute this largely to the improved body armor. Many soldiers who would have died previously now survive, but tend to lose their limbs where the body armor ends.
Governments have a long history of trying to "protect" the public from the true realities of war to prevent loss of support for their policies. For example, I read a story not to long ago (but don't know where) that during WWI, the brits took special care to bring their war dead & casuaties back to out-of-the-way ports in the dead of night so the public at large wouldn't have an understanding of the enormous casuaties they were taking.
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I also read somewhere that the number of amputations from the Iraq war is significantly higher then previous conflicts. They attribute this largely to the improved body armor. Many soldiers who would have died previously now survive, but tend to lose their limbs where the body armor ends.
uh no... doonesbury is a pretty awesome political cartoon.. i dunno about this one, but the ones about captitol hill have funny innuendo
http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20040402
that's not funny?
and in my newspaper, it's in the editorial section (rightfully so)
Yes, we must shield harmless cartoons from our precious readers while REAL people are getting killed in gruesome ways almost every day in Iraq. We wouldn't want one of our easily upset readers to cancel their subscription so we must continue to ensure that we control what they see otherwise heavens forbid they might know that in real combat people die and are maimed in horrific ways. Ignorance is bliss afterall.
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