One employee, who had been donating progressive magazines for a year (including _The Progressive_, _In These Times_, _The Nation_, and _Mother Jones_) came to work at the beginning of June to find that all "liberal" magazines had been removed.

The manager stated that he'd recieved five complaints on one day (all, interestingly, on a single day when the employee wasn't present) from "co-workers and patients" about the magazines being "offensive", and that the Human Resources department had directed him to "thank the employee and ask them to stop bringing [the magazines] in."

Not that news and opinion magazines are unavailable there; the hospital actively maintains subscriptions to "mainstream" (that is, centrist and conservative) newsmagazines.

The real evil here isn't the hospital, stuck as they were in a potential public-relations nightmare. It's those that complained about the "offensive" magazines. They weren't simply satisfied with avoiding reading it themselves - to preserve rightthink, the opposing viewpoint had to be completely removed.