SAN FRANCISCO
Liz and Lee Heidhues 9.5.2024
The blatant censorship being exhibited by the Publisher of a local community newspaper to silence articulate voices is shocking.
Publisher Michael Durand has boasted his newspaper The Richmond Review is a vehicle for citizens and organizations to share diverse points of view and ideas. The opinions currently being published fall in line with his Old Boy Network well suited to 1950’s San Francisco.
In a frenzied effort to silence opposing views in the heated ballot measure to make The Great Highway a permanently car free area the Richmond Review is censoring vocal advocates.
Michael Durand and former publisher Paul Kozakiewicz, currently a contributor, have selectively locked our voices out of the Richmond Review’s “Comments and Replies” section in an act of unprofessional and discriminatory journalism.
This censorship of two individuals reminds us of the censorship the Nixon Administration tried to impose to stop the publishing of the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
Attached are several “Comments and Replies” submitted by Liz and Lee Heidhues which Michael Durand has refused to publish.
Lee's Perspective 