Part I:

"Via the Daily Caller, you would think an eyewitness account of the disappearance of the last American POW in Afghanistan would be easy money for a publisher.

But sometimes there are higher considerations.

While the U.S. Army weighs whether to bring charges against Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was freed earlier this year after spending nearly five years as a Taliban captive in Afghanistan, six of his former platoon mates are shopping proposals for a book and movie that would render their own harsh verdicts…

“I’m not sure we can publish this book without the Right using it to their ends,” Sarah Durand, a senior editor at Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, wrote in an email to one of the soldiers’ agents.

“[T]he Conservatives are all over Bergdahl and using it against Obama,” Durand wrote, “and my concern is that this book will have to become a kind of ‘Swift Boat Veterans for Truth’” — a reference to the group behind a controversial book that raised questions about John Kerry’s Vietnam War record in the midst of his 2004 presidential campaign. (Durand did not respond to requests for comment. “We do not comment about our editorial process,” said Paul Olsewski, vice president and director of publicity at Atria.)...

"Here’s the “about” page for Atria Books [linked], by the way, which begins by emphasizing the vision of its publisher. Any guesses as to which presidential candidate she favored in the last two elections? Do a search at Open Secrets [linked] if you can’t stand the suspense."

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/08/13/re...tm_campaign=IAC

Part II (or, not wise to be quite so open about practicing censorship even when a Liberal).

"The senior editor at Atria Publishing, a division of Simon and Schuster, was laid off on Monday, Aug. 11, before the story about her desire to spike the Bergdahl story came out — and Simon and Schuster reportedly knew about the story before she was laid off.

On Aug. 13, reports emerged that former Atria Publishing senior editor Sarah Durand didn’t want to publish a book proposal by Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s former platoon mates because she was afraid of “the Right using it to their ends” to criticize Obama.

Atria Books Vice President and Director of Publicity Paul Olsewski said in an e-mail to The Daily Caller that Durand was let go as part of planned layoffs.

“I want to make it unequivocally clear that Sarah Durand was part of a planned editorial downsizing that took place on Monday and has absolutely nothing to do with this story,” Olsewski said.

However, sources close to the situation told TheDC that Michael Isikoff, the reporter for Yahoo! News who first broke the story, had e-mailed Simon and Schuster sometime last week and they didn’t get right back to him.

Olsewski denies that this is the case.

“I did not hear about this email story until early this week,” Olsewski said. ”To make any connection to this story is categorically wrong and harmful.”"

http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/14/book-e...y-was-laid-off/

BooHooHoo for Sarah Durand....

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