Welcome to the 920th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. In the first legend of this installment, we take a look into whether people are correctly getting to the truth about a recent social media controversy involving Doonesbury and Gannett’s newspapers. A recent social media outcry over the latest Doonesbury comic strip by Garry Trudeau has led a number of posters online to believe that the strip, a criticism of teaching restrictions in Florida schools, was “banned” by Gannett, the United States’ largest newspaper publisher (in terms of circulation) due to the subject of the new strip. Cracked did a whole article titled Conservative Newspaper Conglomerate Proved Their Opponents’ Point When They Banned This ‘Doonesbury’ Comic Strip.The February 18 edition of Doonesbury featured a teacher telling her students about the history of the Civil War, including the fact that seven of the states that seceded from the United States specifically cited slavery as one of their reasons for seceding, and also that tens of thousands of White southerners volunteered to fight on the side of the Union during the Civil War. Her students are all worried about her, as one student notes, “This is Florida, isn’t it against the law to teach us the full story?” She explains that her husband is in his truck outside, and her students implore her to run and text them after she crosses the border.
Welcome to the 920th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. In the first legend of this installment, we take a look into whether people are correctly getting to the truth about a recent social media controversy involving Doonesbury and Gannett’s newspapers.
A recent social media outcry over the latest Doonesbury comic strip by Garry Trudeau has led a number of posters online to believe that the strip, a criticism of teaching restrictions in Florida schools, was “banned” by Gannett, the United States’ largest newspaper publisher (in terms of circulation) due to the subject of the new strip. Cracked did a whole article titled Conservative Newspaper Conglomerate Proved Their Opponents’ Point When They Banned This ‘Doonesbury’ Comic Strip.
The February 18 edition of Doonesbury featured a teacher telling her students about the history of the Civil War, including the fact that seven of the states that seceded from the United States specifically cited slavery as one of their reasons for seceding, and also that tens of thousands of White southerners volunteered to fight on the side of the Union during the Civil War. Her students are all worried about her, as one student notes, “This is Florida, isn’t it against the law to teach us the full story?” She explains that her husband is in his truck outside, and her students implore her to run and text them after she crosses the border.
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