SURPRISING STUFF

A bit of attempted censorship comes out of the print shop in Lake Geneva called “Copies Plus.”
The people who work at that place have always been pretty neat, until the GSR ran a few stories about the gambling going on in Lake Geneva.  The owner of Copies Plus called on Tuesday morning, indicating that the GSR stories about the gambling were lies, and that people associated with it in the bars and restaurants where the GSR alleged gambling was going on, were losing jobs.   The publisher, taking the owner’s call, wondered, and continues to wonder, about the likelihood of employees losing jobs if there’s really no gambling going on at all.  Nevertheless, when the owner threatened not to print the GSR unless she approved of the stories the paper the publisher tried to explain to her that no newspaper worth its salt could possibly survive if it gave editorial privilege to the outfit that does the printing of the hard copy.

That was it.  The GSR is out, since the GSR is founded upon basic ‘freedom of the press’ beliefs as laid out in the United States Constitution.  The freedom of the press must remain unabridged, and that word means that no printer, or any other entity, including the United States government and Copies Plus, can dictate what a newspaper (which the GSR fully qualifies as) writes.  Copes Plus can, and has, however, decided not to do business with the GSR anymore over the Care Bear stories the paper has featured.  The GSR also knows from its investigative results that Copies Plus personnel have social and work relationships with the people down in Illinois who have been alleged to be a part of the gambling going on in Southern Wisconsin.

Copies Plus has been a most excellent quality source for the printing of the GSR for many years and the people who run the place and work there have been most kind and excellent to deal with, however, the GSR will not surrender editorial privilege to any person or entity outside of its own ownership and staff, and that very definitely includes the owner and personnel of Copies Plus.