At this point, I don't know that it is censorship as one might automatically think of it, but the effects of misdirection, and intentional obfuscation are the same.
I can understand that people are interested in maintaining the status quo, but an unwillingness to change is hurting the U.S. (and other countries) on many fronts. If I had to choose the one thing that I am most offended by, I would have to say it's fear; it limits the possible at all levels and twists the elegant and the functional into something less, far too often.
It's not traditional censorship, in the sense that no one is explicitly telling them not to print something. But it is implicit censorship, in the sense that they won't run certain important stories for fear of a giant backlash. Implicit or explicit, it's still censorship, and it's still wrong.