Word: capps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Right to Be Wrong. Editor Leech's mailbox was soon full of letters accusing him of censorship. But was it? What vested right did Cartoonist Capp have to appear in the Pittsburgh Press? To accuse Editor Leech of censorship was to say that an editor's duty was to run everything his staff wrote and everything he bought from a syndicate. Editor Leech may have been wrong, but he had a right to be: in an era of canned journalism, he at least had the privilege of choosing what to spoon out of the cans...
According to Cartoonist Capp, it was the first time Li'l Abner had ever been cut out of the 420 daily and more than 500 Sunday papers which buy the strip. (Two other papers also objected to one of last week's strips.) Said Capp: "If anything is public property, it's the U.S. Senate. We elect 'em, and we pay 'em. Anyway, the whole sequence is just a cleaned up version of the Hughes investigation, during which the U.S. Senate was a more ludicrous, comical spectacle than any artist would dare draw...
Cartoonist Capp was not the only cartoonist to suffer...