Rall pulled from NYT

Ted Rall's work has been dropped from the New York Times' online editorial cartoon page.

The Times claims his work no longer fits with the "tone" of the paper; Rall claims the Times is "caving in to Republican pressure" by pulling his cartoons.

Does the Times have a right to choose what content promotes on its website? Does it have a duty to publish material that its editors find disagreeable? I think it's pretty obvious the answer to both of these questions is "yes." But does one issue trump the other? If so, how do you determine which one "wins out"? And to what extent does outside pressure determine what the Times finds agreeable or not? Does it matter if these outside interests are commercial ones or political ones?

This is a pretty hard issue to navigate. I may have to break out my copy of Manufacturing Consent to figure out all this filtering.