May 4, 2005
BC’s Evolution Sunday Offends No One?
Dave Astor at
Editor and Publisher picks up on
a non-story story that would probably escape any other reporter: Johnny Hart runs an anti-evolution diatribe in his
B.C. and no paper complains. This could mean a lot of things -- that traditionally liberal newspaper readers are less likely to complain than conservatives in a way that worries editors, that there are 1200 news outlets in which this is considered non-exceptional dialogue, that years of similar commentaries have won Hart the space to do this kind of thing, or that this specific issue is no longer a hot-button topic that raises hackles by virtue of being discussed. I'm not sure myself. But it's definitely worth noting.
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