Because surely newspaper editors have at least a rudimentary understanding of the free speech rights ? enough to know that only governments can censor. From that basis, we must conclude that Salisbury-based Continental Features is a heretofore unnoticed branch of the federal government. After polling its newspaper clients, the Sunday-comics consortium has decided to drop Gary Trudeau’s “Doonesbury” comic strip. Anniston (Ala.) Star editor called the decision “wrong, offensive to First Amendment freedoms” and has protested it as censorship.
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