It's pretty common to ask candidates for something new in their op-ed pieces before a publisher will run them and distribute them for free to millions of readers. All editors exercise that kind of control over op-ed pieces. If there is nothing new, then they don't want to waste the page on it. It doesn't infringe McCain's freedom of speech to not run his article for free in the paper. He can publish his ideas on his own, or he can take out an ad, or he can provide an article interesting enough to run. That was probably the biggest problem with it if McCain wrote it --- it was probably boring...
dragonrider Reviewed by dragonrider on . Times takes Obama article but rejects McCain The New York Times has reportedly rejected an editorial written by Republican presidential candidate John McCain less than a week after publishing an essay by Democratic candidate Barack Obama. The US website, Drudge Report, said the paper had refused to publish Mr McCain's piece, which was a rebuttal to Mr Obama's article title 'My Plan for Iraq'. According to the site, the paper's opinion page editor David Shipley wrote to McCain's staff: "It would be terrific to have an article from Rating: 5