Something smells here. Why would the NYT submit anything to be checked by the government? It's just not logical. The NYT lives on "free press", and is certainly not a friend to this Administration. They have plenty of lawyers ready to defend their right of free press.

I guess if your read the article, you must conclude as you did, that this was blatantly censorious. But, usually, if a newspaper cries foul then I can see how something might happen. But in this case, it is simply not logical that the NYT would succumb to the petty wishes of some government bureaucracy.

The US has many problems, but government crackdown of freedom of speech has not reached this point. I would think soldiers must be stationed inside the NYT building before the newspaper would give in this way.

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Hobo
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