Turns out that the Washington Post Writers Group, which syndicates Berkeley Breathed’s cartoon strip “Opus,” gave client newspapers advance notice of the “close to the edge” content in which Lola Granola decided to become an Islamic radical. This after the syndicate consulted with Islamic experts to rate the level of potential offensiveness. Then, one of the papers that decided not to run the strip — which, as seen on Salon.com, was quite funny — was the Post itself. More…

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