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According to TIME [Sept. 29], Editor Ed Leech ordered Li'l Abner dropped from the Pittsburgh Press because . . . "we don't think it is good editing or sound citizenship to picture the Senate as an assemblage of crooks . . . and undesirables. In addition the continuity contained a double-meaning statement so obvious that we considered it vulgar...
...Leech is pretty bitter about my picturing a few Congressmen as crooks and undesirables. Now I didn't make this stuff up. . . . Mr. Leech's own paper informed me that, within [recent] months, two U.S. Congressmen have been declared officially crooked...
...Abner walks a dangerous rope: it often picks its topics out of the headlines, and sometimes finds its humor in the neighborhood of the outhouse. Last week, on both counts, it disappeared for a week from the columns of the Scripps-Howard Pittsburgh Press. Editor Edward Towner Leech had taken umbrage at a broad burlesque of the U.S. Senate...
...Editor Leech was not amused. Wrote he: "We don't think it is good editing or sound citizenship to picture the Senate as an assemblage of freaks and crooks . . . boobs and undesirables. In addition the continuity contained a double-meaning statement so obvious that we considered it vulgar...
...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...