Bergdahl - Platoon Mates' Book - Knocked back by publishers 'censoring' in favour of Obama?

Inside the Bowe Bergdahl book proposal: Soldier's platoon mates speak out By Michael Isikoff August 13, 2014 2:46 AM Yahoo News While the U.S. Army weighs whether to bring charges against Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was freed earlier this year after spending nearly five years as a Taliban captive in Afghanistan, six of his former platoon mates are shopping proposals for a book and movie that would render their own harsh verdicts. A draft of their book proposal, a copy of which was obtained by Yahoo News, depicts Bergdahl as a "premeditated" deserter who "put all of our lives in danger" — and possibly aided the Taliban — when he disappeared from his observation post in eastern Afghanistan in the early morning hours of June 30, 2009. But the political furor over Bergdahl's release from Taliban captivity — the result of a U.S.-Taliban deal to swap five Guantanamo terrorism suspects in exchange for Bergdahl's freedom — is complicating the book's prospects. Agents for the soldiers say that some publishers have balked, in at least one case out of fear that the project would bolster conservative criticism of the Obama administration. "I'm not sure we can publish this book without the Right using it to their ends," Sarah Durand, a senior editor at Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, wrote in an email to one of the soldiers' agents. "[T]he Conservatives are all over Bergdahl and using it against Obama," Durand wrote, "and my concern is that this book will have to become a kind of 'Swift Boat Veterans for Truth'" — a reference to the group behind a controversial book that raised questions about John Kerry's Vietnam War record in the midst of his 2004 presidential campaign. (Durand did not respond to requests for comment. "We do not comment about our editorial process," said Paul Olsewski, vice president and director of publicity at Atria.) Another complication is that Bergdahl's former platoon mates are all potential key witnesses in the Army's investigation into his 2009 disappearance. Two of the would-be authors, who were recently questioned as part of the Army probe, insisted in interviews that they aren't advancing a political agenda but want to set the record straight, as they see it, about Bergdahl's conduct and President Obama's praise for him at a Rose Garden ceremony in May. [...] EXTRACT - FULL @ SOURCE http://news.yahoo.com/inside-the-bowe-bergdahl-book-proposal--his-platoon-mates-speak-out-064607293.html

So you can have your right to freedom of speech; but we just won't publish you?

SINGAPORE - 'Archie: The Married Life Book Three' & 'Tango Makes Three censorship'

 Reuters

Archie comic banned in Singapore as censorship row escalates

SINGAPORE Thu Jul 17, 2014 12:26pm IST

(Reuters) - Singapore has banned a volume of the "Archie" comic book that featured a same-sex marriage, adding fuel to a censorship row that erupted over a children's story about two male penguins hatching an egg.

"Archie: The Married Life Book Three" was taken off book shop shelves following a complaint to Singapore's Media Development Authority which found it was not in line with social norms and breached their content guidelines. 

News of the ban, which was imposed earlier this year but came to light late on Wednesday, comes a week after Singapore's National Library Board said it was to destroy three children's books seen as being pro-homosexual, including penguin story "And Tango Makes Three". 

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Random House ................................................-  "Archie:  The Married Life Book Three".
Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing ..........- "And Tango Makes Three".

Until I read this I thought I was quite the liberal.

Publish by all means and go ahead and stock it in the latte-sipping section of the bookshop, for those that may wish to indoctrinate their *own* children.

But if I had children, I wouldn't want this on standard distributors' shelves or available in schools.

It's mindboggling that the publishers are incapable of self-regulation, when they're publishing materials aimed at minors rather than adults.

Mine's not a politically correct view, but I don't care.

This is indoctrination.