RE: Mississippi libraries ban 'Daily Show' book

From: Carol Billings (CBillings@LASC.ORG)
Date: Mon Jan 10 2005 - 08:01:44 PST


Happy to say that I bought my copy at the William and Mary book store, where
they had a huge display in honor of their alumnus Jon Stewart (the speaker at
their last commencement).

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Baker, Brian L. [mailto:bbaker@udc.edu]
        Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 8:34 AM
        To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
        Subject: Mississippi libraries ban 'Daily Show' book
        
        

        Unbelievable! Librarian Censors.

        http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/01/10/banned.book.ap/index.html
<http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/01/10/banned.book.ap/index.html>

        "I've been a librarian for 40 years and this is the only book I've
objected to so strongly that I wouldn't allow it to circulate," said Robert
Willits, director of the Jackson-George Regional Library System of eight
libraries in Jackson and George counties.

        Brian L. Baker, JD, MLS
        Director of the Law Library
        & Assistant Professor of Law
        UDC David A. Clarke School of Law
        Charles N. and Hilda H.M. Mason Law Library
        E: bbaker@udc.edu V: 202-274-7354 F: 202-274-7311

        As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In
both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in
the air however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

        Justice William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court (1939-75)

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