In response, 27 writers and editors faithful to the party line resigned from the union.
The first editor resigned after just five months.
The editor then resigned in protest over what amounted to censorship.
The tensions came to a head on July 6, 2006, when five editors and a columnist resigned.
The editor who was given the task of turning Mademoiselle into a cutting-edge magazine resigned.
A senior editor at The Inquirer resigned in protest, but talk of a job action came to nothing.
The paper's top editor, who had solicited the piece, resigned in protest, although he decided to stay on as a columnist.
But in 1988, she and two other top editors resigned over budget cuts imposed by the church.
On March 8, after he decided not to do so, two senior editors resigned in protest.
The editor of Texas Monthly resigned yesterday after 19 years.