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Guardian removes call for assassins column from website
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| News Date | Sunday, October 24, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The UK Guardian has removed its anti-Bush calling-all-assassins column from its website.
"The Guardian has taken the remarkable step by replacing a column in which the writer appeared to call for the assassination of George W. Bush with an apology," reports The National Business Review.
Make that a Guardian sort-of, lukewarm mea culpa.
Guardian columnist Charlie Brooker, who usually reviews television programs, ended his October 3 column, Dumb Show with the words, "John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr--where are you now that we need you?" |
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