Animals
It looks like censorship is alive and well in South Mississippi thanks to the complaints of an unnamed Ocean Springs patron a best seller has been removed from the Jackson George Regional Library shelves.
The complaint was that the work, a collection of essays by a comedian whose humor has been described as raunchy, is obscene, but Bridges said the board will not take up the issue of determining obscenity.
The board will meet at 5 p.m. on Sept. 25 at the Pascagoula library.
Other post on censorship at Alasandra & Home~Schoolers Rule.
As Jean~Luc Picard said
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Animals
Best-seller called obscene
It looks like censorship is alive and well in South Mississippi thanks to the complaints of an unnamed Ocean Springs patron a best seller has been removed from the Jackson George Regional Library shelves.
The complaint was that the work, a collection of essays by a comedian whose humor has been described as raunchy, is obscene, but Bridges said the board will not take up the issue of determining obscenity.
The board will meet at 5 p.m. on Sept. 25 at the Pascagoula library.
Other post on censorship at Alasandra & Home~Schoolers Rule.
As Jean~Luc Picard said
“With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."–Jean-Luc Picard – Star Trek: The Next Generation “The Drumhead”
- Library News
Online enhancements will take the guesswork out of searches for patrons of the Jackson-George Regional Library System. I reserve the majority of the books I get on-line and then drop by to pick them up, so this is welcome news to me. For those who haven't...
- Book Returns To Circulation
The Library Board for the Jackson-George Regional Library System voted 3 to 1 Tuesday night to make a best-selling book by comedian Jim Norton available to library patrons again upon request. The book has been out of circulation since an Ocean Springs...
- The Public Library's Role Is To Serve The Entire Community
Karpen said that removing a book from the public library has been considered constitutionally suspect. "Many courts have noted that the public library's role is to serve the entire community," she said, "not to reflect or cater to any specific viewpoint....
- No Book Should Be Expected To Please Every Reader
The trustees have been asked by the library system's director, Michael Hamlett, to decide the fate of "Happy Endings: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch" by comedian Jim Norton. A library patron in Ocean Springs objects to Norton's book being...
- I Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself
Letter to the Editor in today's Sun Herald. Keepers of standards, or cultural bullies? I am writing about the book-banning issue that recently occurred in the Jackson-George Regional Library system, and which was reported in the Sun Herald. A best-selling...