Remember the bill before the state legislature of Ohio intended to regulate academia? Here is one section, emphasis mine: (C) Faculty and instructors shall not infringe the academic freedom and quality of education of their students by persistently introducing controversial matter into the classroom or coursework that has no relation to their subject of study and that serves no legitimate pedagogical purpose. Now, take a look at this (again, emphasis mine):An advocacy group, USAction, said on Monday that four television networks had turned down its request to run an advertisement opposing President Bush's effort to clamp down on medical malpractice lawsuits.

The group wanted to run the spots just before Mr. Bush's State of the Union address on Wednesday. But networks said the advertisement violated their standards for advertising on controversial issues.

The NBC Universal Television Network, owned by General Electric, told the group, "We are sorry that we cannot accept your ad based on our network policy regarding controversial issue advertising."

As a general rule, the policy says, "time will not be sold on NBC Network facilities for the presentation of views on controversial issues." The policy does not apply to candidates for public office in election years.

ABC, CBS and the Fox Broadcasting Company said they had also turned down the advertisement.

I asked before who would define "controversial subject matter." Well, it is becoming pretty obvious that the word is becoming the main talking point used by conservatives when they aim to censor progressives. Progressive scholarship is too controversial, so it must be made illegal. Progressive advertisements criticizing Bush are too controversial, so they will not be run. I wonder what will be too controversial next.