Bad Bad Newspaper

At least shrub's control of the media hasn't gone this far...yet.

The government of the southern Russian city of Volgograd is shutting down a newspaper that published a cartoon portraying Jesus, Moses, Buddha and the Prophet Mohammed condemning racism, the municipal administration said yesterday.

The mayor said his order to close the City News paper was intended ``to prevent incitement of enmity on religious national and social grounds, and also to stop the abuse of media freedom,'' according to an administration statement.

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The government ordered officials to liquidate the paper within a month.

Got to control that abuse of media freedom. It can get nasty. Now I understand why the Washington press corps fears shrub. They know he's capable of this sort of thing.

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