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August 27, 2007


"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.
 
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