"Opus Dropped" Story Goes Into Week 2

Several newspapers including the Washington Post refused to run yesterday's Opus strip by Berkeley Breathed for content reasons, apparently related to its tweaking of Islamic fundamentalism and the proximity of a salty joke. Many of those same papers are expected to drop the strip this weekend as well. Daily Cartoonist has a count, bloggers are discussing the matter, and Spokane has the most direct and most eloquent rationale for running the controversial strips.
 
posted 3:06 am PST | Permalink
 

---

 
Daily Blog Archives
July 2009
June 2009
May 2009
April 2009
March 2009
 
Full Archives