cartoon censorship

ok, so this from jossip.com.....A “Get Fuzzy” comic scheduled to run Sept. 14 in the Chicago Tribune was replaced with a note that advised that the comic “did not meet the Tribune’s standards for taste,” reportedly because the strip had the audacity to refer to mobsters as “goons.”

And while many readers are protesting the Trib’s seemingly arbitrary application of censorship, we’re predicting this trend of preemptive self-editing will actually catch on big-time.

In which case it won’t be long before Garfield’s pulled on the basis that it promotes childhood obesity, Dilbert is yanked for characterizing corporate execs as boring people who have no soul, Cathy is scratched after offending the delicate sensibilities of overweight chronically single women and The New Yorker is required to start publishing explanations to make each cartoon more “accessible.”