Boyle lances himself

It was bound to end in tears. As I wrote here, the Daily Record in Scotland billed columnist Frankie Boyle as "the comic who can't be gagged" yet, from the outset, censored what he wrote. Now Boyle has quit the paper because it refused to run his jokes about Michael Jackson. Boyle wrote to members of his mailing list: "Oh dear. Had to quit my Daily Record column over a moral disagreement. We disagreed over whether it was ok to make jokes about a dead child molestor."
PS: Meanwhile, in Australia, Newtork Ten censored a Bruno joke about Katie Holmes on Rove - apparently over concerns that she would get the huff and refuse to appear on the show. Fearless broadcasting at its best, folks!