Pogo
61 posts Oct 06, 2007
1:02 PM
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When a small school district near Houston was asked to ban Fahrenheit 451 last year, I wrote the publisher, supplying URLs to the local newspaper articles, and names and email addresses of the school authorities involved. I suggested that Mr. Bradbury or his agent take a hand in this, using the essay about censorship appended to the book. Although, a couple decades ago, I did suggest that a couple books be removed from the public libraries. They were biographies of historic women, but so full of inaccuracies and outright errors, not to mention bibliographies that were pathetic (one was, in full, "Encyclopedia Britannica"), that they were beyond useless. My niece was using one as a source for some paper she was doing for school, and pled time as an excuse for continuing to use it when I objected. So I sent her a copy of my notes on its errors. The books were not by a historian, archeaologist, or biographer; they were by a journalist (not Dan Rather, but I can see similarities). Pogo
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