holding a column that never happened and saying it was too harsh in the tone. >> i guess what i'm thinking about is this is how it works. there are cases like this where political influence can get a story canned? viewers at home, you know this is a last thing they want to hear. >> yeah of course it's absolutely outrageous. i knew what i was getting into. the sun is a family-owned newspaper. brian greenspun protects his friends all the time. there are plenty of instances like this. i had a conversation before i went to work and i said i know what you do and have done in the past. if you kill one of my columns that will be the last column i ever write. that's what happened. to his credit he didn't interfere with me at all. he called me when i wrote critical things. he made me meet with a couple of his friends but he had never spiked the column before this one. that's how it works at the las vegas sun. in is not a secret.