TO BE CENSORED

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admin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:01:16 +0000

From TIME Magazine:

Since 1982, the American Library Association has sponsored Banned Books Week to pay tribute to free speech and open libraries. The tradition began as a nod to how far society has come since 1557, when Pope Paul IV first established The Index of Prohibited Books to protect Catholics from controversial ideas. Pope Paul VI would abolish it 409 years later, although attempts at censorship still remain.

Here are some of the most challenged books of all time.

admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:02:43 +0000

Below is an audio excerpt from President John F. Kennedy’s address to the American Newspaper Publishers on April 27, 1961.

Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed – and no republic can survive.

And so it is to the printing press – to the recorder of man’s deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news — that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

-John F. Kennedy, 1961

Full text and audio can be found here.

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:45:54 +0000

Newspaper blackout poetry by Austin Kleon.

admin — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 03:56:46 +0000

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admin — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:55:14 +0000

Censorship: The reaction of the ignorant to freedom.

admin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:38:04 +0000

Art by L. Gainer

admin — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:30:14 +0000

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

-John F. Kennedy

admin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:12:09 +0000