That doesn’t mean everyone shares their frustration. In the May 14 “Non Sequitur,” a girl calls the United Nations: she made a mess in her room and wants it cleaned up. The U.N. Minister of Stinking Messes asks his secretary to make sure the call isn’t from… the White House. That punch line was excised from The Sacramento Bee in what the paper’s ombudsman calls a “production error.” Creator Wiley Miller says, “This is a disturbing thing that plays into my criticisms of what the media has been.” “Bloom County’s” Berkeley Breathed e-mails: “I’ve never sensed such outright panic on the part of editors. One or two angry letters will send many of them scurrying… and cutting.”
