September 28, 2001

• It’s Not Unpatriotic To Say This Either
  
  Columnists Fired After Criticizing Bush
  
  “Publishers at both dailies would not say if the columns led directly to the firings, but they appear to have played central roles, especially at the Texas City Sun, where Gutting wrote, among other things, that Bush on Sept. 11 “was flying around the country like a scared child seeking refuge in his mother’s bed after having a nightmare.”"
  
  White House Whitewashers
  
  “Sept. 27, 2001 | WASHINGTON — On the same day last week that “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Brokaw sat down to interview former President Clinton, executives for the program received unexpected phone calls from senior communications staffers at the White House, expressing disappointment about the decision to spotlight Bush’s predecessor.
  
  While not asking the network to refrain from running the interview, they expressed the feeling that the Sept. 18 interview with Clinton would not be helpful to the current war on terrorism.”
  
  This is an odius trend. The White House is very quick to label its critics as unpatriotic or insensitive to the nation’s needs. Newspapers, it seems, are eager to silence any criticism so as not to find themselves in the administration’s sights.

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