re newspapers censoring gun advertisements i don t know what traders is claiming but it appears to me that the oakland tribune has censored gun ads in the past likewise for the san francisco chronicle and i have never seen a gun ad in the san francisco examiner specifically about a year ago on thursdays when traders placed its ads the chron ad would not have any graphics representing any handgun sale though text could list it the trib would run a graphic of a handgun the examiner would not have a traders ad at all over the past year while oakland politicians have made a lot of noise about measures to fight crime the trib stopped taking the traders ad then started publishing it but without any handgun graphic then stopped then started since the trib was sold some months ago it has not had the traders ad during one of these non ad interludes a traders employee told me that the trib had refused to take their ads yes the usual chron thursday ad was there today with graphics representing rifles safes etc as usual joan v
