Censorship and enabling by Arizona media

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Arizona's two largest circulation dailies, The Arizona Republic and the Arizona Daily Star, are among the papers that censored the Doonesbury comic strip this week – during the same week that the Arizona Tea-Publican Senate passed the "Baby Blunt Amendment" giving employers the right to deny contraception coverage to female employees and even to permit employers to terminate contraception users on "religious or moral objections" to their private life Arizona Senate Committee Endorses 'Tell Your Boss Why You're On The Pill' Bill; and a panel of the Arizona legislature voted to defund Planned Parenthood, which for many women is the only health care provider for breast cancer screening, cervical cancer screening, etc., available in their community. Republican-Controlled Arizona Legislature On Cusp Of Defunding Planned Parenthood.

Despite this "War on Women Week" at the Arizona legislature being the "hot topic" of the national news media all week, the editors of Arizona's two largest circulation dailies, The Arizona Republic and the Arizona Daily Star, were not moved to write a single word of editorial opinion about this assault on Arizona women. Silence is consent, the failure to object is ratification. The media are enablers of God's Own Party (GOP).

To their credit, The Arizona Republic's opinion columnists E.J. Montini Should birth control be a firing offense? and Laurie Roberts Give legislators credit for ability to amaze us did address the GOP War on Women this week.

I am disappointed that the Arizona Republic's cartoonist, Steve Benson, and the Arizona Daily Star's cartoonist, David Fitzsimmons, were not given an opinion column to address their editors' cowardly decision to censor the Doonesbury comic strip this week without an editorial notice to readers in the print edition of the paper explaining their cowardly decision.

Here is the Texas abortion law story arc these cowardly editors did not want you to see this week. By the way, children see far more "offensive" things than this on television and in the video games they play every day. The editors must believe children live in some mythical world that simply does not exist.