Controversial ‘Doonesbury’

I suspect you will receive a lot of mail and telephone messages about Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury” comic strip of Jan. 27. Many will urge you to either terminate the strip or to use some sort of selective censorship. I am opposed to such censorship and would be even more opposed to your dropping “Doonesbury.”

I do not always agree with the ideas behind Trudeau’s work, but he always makes me think. This is one reason why I try to get my news and entertainment from written sources rather than having it spoon-fed to me by television.

The fact that the cartoon was drawn by an airman on the front lines makes me think doubly hard about this war’s effects on our country, its citizens, soldiers and institutions.

I hope that newspaper self-censorship will not be one of the outcomes of this war and urge your restraint in the face of those who think such censorship is called for.

R. LEONARD BROWN, Los Angeles