by Jude Nagurney Camwell, American Street, Dec 4, 2004
"The spike of the column was "almost like prior restraint." Don't criticize Bush, or you column won't be run."
--Jim Goldsborough, from an Editor and Publisher article by Mark Fitzgerald
___
Veteran columnist Jim Goldsborough of the San Diego Union-Tribune, who calls himself a moderate, is quitting the paper. While he may be losing a paycheck, which is never an easy choice to make, I applaud him for doing so. He's already been offered a job with a soon-to-be-available daily online newspaper, the Voice of San Diego.
Mr. Goldsborough is quoted as saying, "I've written columns for everybody. I've been edited, criticized. ... But never have I gotten a call Sunday night that the column is not running Monday, and there's no discussion......."
Goldsborough's publisher David C. Copley, in eleventh-hour fashion, pulled a column scheduled to run Monday, saying that the column "might be offensive". Jim has asked, " Offensive to whom? That's the question. The column is not offensive to Jews. Maybe to Bush."
Read More