censorship ahead of the RNC

[lizziebelle]

I learned, on a photography blog of all places, that they're censoring some billboards in St. Paul ahead of the Republican National Convention.

"On August 8, CBS Outdoor signed a contract to post five billboards showing portraits of volunteer US soldiers taken by New York photographer Suzanne Opton. In the portraits, the soldiers, men and women, look dazed, confused and even traumatized — they had just returned from war in Afghanistan or Iraq, and were scheduled to go back to war in a few days.

Just days before the billboards were supposed to go up, however, the contract got cancelled — with little chance that Opton can find alternative public space to display her simple and poignant message."

See the whole story here, and the original story on the NY Times here.

Looks like it's business as usual for the GOP...