Where the rattlesnake bites…

Posted on February 17th, 2007 by bookwyrmish

I can’t resist pointing to this New York Times article, having just blogged about censorship in the previous post.
A book wins the prestigious Newbery Medal award. It is “The Higher Power of Lucky,” by Susan Patron.
It becomes controversial because it uses an anatomically correct word. This word use is fitting with a theme [...]

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What’s More Real Than National Geographic–or Newsweek–or Time?

Posted on January 3rd, 2007 by bookwyrmish

Turns out, that’s a very good question. Better than you might think.
I’ve found this wonderful link to a series of “pictures that lie.” (I’ve been getting a feed on the newly added bookmarks of del.icio.us user LibrarianEdge and this site was added by LibrarianEdge today–Thanks!). I’m extremely excited, because I was looking [...]

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