Art Spiegelman documentary censored, PBS
PBS canceled a documentary about Art Spiegelman because the people making
it refused to omit a scene in which Spiegelman talks about
a
cartoon that criticizes the would-be king.
Ironically, the executive of PBS had rational grounds to fear that any
criticism of him might provoke him to try to destroy PBS. That does not
make craven censorship acceptable.
Even more ironically, since he is already trying to destroy PBS,
practically speaking PBS had nothing to lose by allowing that scene
except its honor.