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Daily Archives: September 11th, 2008

Censorship

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Via Americablog, yet again. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZII0GjcJMus[/youtube] Librarians have been silent heroes in a lot of ways over the course of the last seven years. They resisted the Patriot Act’s Big Brother is Watching provisions requiring disclosure of library patron reading habits, and they have consistently opposed attempts at book banning of the type Palin was contemplating. […]

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Upside down

Thursday, September 11, 2008

This is not the way it’s supposed to work. Local newspeople are supposed to be in awe of presidential candidates and are supposed to toss softballs. National newspeople are supposed to be the fearsome interlocutors. Check out John McCain’s lame responses to fairly aggressive questions from a newsman on WCSH in Portland, Maine. Note, by […]

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