Does America Enjoy Free Speech ?
The "cowardice" of the Commander-in-Chief "hiding in a Nebraska hole" looked bad particularly when compared to the courage of the passengers of United 93, "the heroes of this rotten week", who had died fighting back.
The above statement written in small family-owned newspaper got the author fired.
Dan Guthrie was the first victim of a new hostility towards journalists and a shift towards media repression in the name of patriotism quite unfamiliar to Americans.