I see that some newspaper editors censored Doonesbury's cartoons recently. Apparently he's had the President calling Rove "Turd Blossom". It kills me, you know, how there's this whole "Freedom of the Press" myth that the media propogate, when, you know, the media themselves seem to spend half their time censoring themselves.

Not in the places where I think they should censor themselves, either. I mean, they worry about political stuff like this, but I think it would be more to the point if they stopped fixating on all the graphic violence they think the public is clamoring to see. Even if they are (and personally, I know lots of people who are disgusted by it), that doesn't mean the media should give into it. I'm not one of those don't-let-kids-watch-TV, stop-those-violent-video-games types, but I do know all about what happens when you feed an appetite for violence.

Okay, didn't mean to go there. But really ... people would feel a lot more secure if they didn't have terrible things pushed in their faces all the time.

Rant over.