Chicago Trib drops Muwakkil's column for "a
different voice"
Chicago Reader
Chicago Tribune editorial-page editor Bruce Dold says he
deleted this passage from Salim Muwakkil's Feb. 10 column:
"Adolf Hitler justified the Nazi invasion and occupation of parts of
Europe as a benign move to protect them from Britain's imperial tyranny.
The Nazis called it Lebensraum. We call it 'pre-emptive
self-defense.'" Dold tells Michael Miner: "The column
misapplied the term [lebensraum, which means "living space"],
and in attempting to link U.S. policy to Hitler's invasion, had an
exceedingly narrow explanation of Hitler's justification for the
invasion." Muwakkil has been dropped as a columnist, but Dold says
it's not because of the Feb. 10 essay. "I had been thinking about it
for some time," he says. (Second column item.)
> "I used to pinch myself in amazement
that I was doing this" (low) (CT)
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