Editing Doonesbury (section)

===1980s===
* In 1985, a series of Doonesbury strips helped to repeal a 60-year-old discriminatory law in [[Palm Springs]], in [[Orange County, Florida|Orange County]] in [[Florida]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cbr.com/doonesbury-trivia-facts-comic-strip/#the-doonesbury-comic-strip-played-a-role-in-forcing-palm-springs-officials-to-change-a-discriminatory-law | title=Doonesbury: 10 Things You Didn't Know About the Comic Strip | date=March 21, 2021 }}</ref>
* In June 1985, a strip featuring [[Aniello Dellacroce]] and [[Frank Sinatra]] together, which referred to Dellacroce as an "alleged human" who has been charged with murder led to several papers dropping the strip and a statement from Sinatra.<ref>{{Cite news|date=June 11, 1985|title=Newspaper cancels 'Doonesbury' comic strip|work=UPI|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/06/11/Newspaper-cancels-Doonesbury-comic-strip/3022487310400/|url-status=live|access-date=March 11, 2021|archive-date=March 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210311230542/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/06/11/Newspaper-cancels-Doonesbury-comic-strip/3022487310400/}}</ref>
*In December 1988, the ''[[Winston-Salem Journal]]'' dropped a Sunday strip featuring the [[R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company]] (in which a prospective executive cannot deny the link between smoking and cancer without bursting out laughing) because "it would be personally offensive to its employees." It was the first time the strip had been pulled in deference to a corporation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://doonesbury.slate.com/strip/archive/timeline/1980 |title=Doonesbury's Timeline |access-date=2013-07-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231095730/http://doonesbury.slate.com/strip/archive/timeline/1980 |archive-date=December 31, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
* In June 1989, several days' comics (which had already been drawn and written) had to be replaced with repeats, because the humor of the strips was considered in bad taste in light of the violent crackdown on protesters in [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989|Tiananmen Square]] in Beijing. Trudeau himself asked for the recall,<ref>{{cite journal |title=Trudeau Recalls Doonesbury China Strips |journal=The Comics Journal |issue=130 |page=22 |date=July 1989}}</ref> despite an interview published with Universal Press Syndicate Editorial Director [[Lee Salem (editor)|Lee Salem]] in the May 28, 1989, ''[[San Jose Mercury News]]'', in which Salem stated his hopes the strips could still be used.