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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 21:48:43 -0500
I commend Ruth Gordon for attempting to communicate with Scott Simon, host of "Morning Edition" on Satrudays, about the consistently shabby features he and Daniel Pinkwater provide for people seriously interested in Children's Literature. I encourage you to write to Ruth directly druthgo at sonic.net to let her know if you've written to Mr. Simon or to share your thoughts as to how this situation can be improved.
We are NOT beginning a discussion on CCBC-Net about this subject. I'm sure Ruth will let us know the progress of this effort in another month. Write to her, not to everyone.
On a personal note, I'll try your patience by writing about this as long as you already have this message opened. Just stop reading or delete this message, if you don't care.
I listen to NPR whenever I can during the week and over the weekend. I greatly appreciate much of what Mr. Simon offers during his two-hour radio "magazine." I miss him when someone else hosts the program for him. His serious essays are usually thoughtful, skillfully written and often provocative. I particularly remember the chilling one he filed from Irag during the Persian Gulf War in which he detailed what anti-personnel weapons do to personnel, i.e., human beings. I'm always a tad bemused about the open affection he expresses for his home city of Chicago.
I was horrified when - on the Saturday following Shel Silverstein's sudden, shocking death last year - Daniel Pinkwater actually said that he had never heard of Shel Silverstein. He pronounced his name incorrectly. He then read aloud from a book Mr. Silverstein had written - one that Mr. Pinkwater said he had found out about that week or something to that effect. Something by the title of "Where the Sidewalk Ends."
To think that Daniel Pinkwater is a resident "expert" on Children's Literature after that dismal Saturday commentary is only one example of why he cannot continue to be a commentator on this subject. He most certainly is amusing when he reads his own works, and so I hope Scott Simon will find a way to continue to feature him talking about his own books.
Perhaps Mr. Simon can even locate someone whose voice isn't already represented in published reviews and other radio features about Children's Literature, so the listening public can have access to a variety of informed opinions.
Hey, it's OK to write directly to me about this, too, whether or not you agree. However, remember that Ruth is the one who is leading the effort. Remember: druthgo at sonic.net
- Ginny (gmkruse at education.wisc.edu)
Received on Sun 01 Oct 2000 09:48:43 PM CDT
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 21:48:43 -0500
I commend Ruth Gordon for attempting to communicate with Scott Simon, host of "Morning Edition" on Satrudays, about the consistently shabby features he and Daniel Pinkwater provide for people seriously interested in Children's Literature. I encourage you to write to Ruth directly druthgo at sonic.net to let her know if you've written to Mr. Simon or to share your thoughts as to how this situation can be improved.
We are NOT beginning a discussion on CCBC-Net about this subject. I'm sure Ruth will let us know the progress of this effort in another month. Write to her, not to everyone.
On a personal note, I'll try your patience by writing about this as long as you already have this message opened. Just stop reading or delete this message, if you don't care.
I listen to NPR whenever I can during the week and over the weekend. I greatly appreciate much of what Mr. Simon offers during his two-hour radio "magazine." I miss him when someone else hosts the program for him. His serious essays are usually thoughtful, skillfully written and often provocative. I particularly remember the chilling one he filed from Irag during the Persian Gulf War in which he detailed what anti-personnel weapons do to personnel, i.e., human beings. I'm always a tad bemused about the open affection he expresses for his home city of Chicago.
I was horrified when - on the Saturday following Shel Silverstein's sudden, shocking death last year - Daniel Pinkwater actually said that he had never heard of Shel Silverstein. He pronounced his name incorrectly. He then read aloud from a book Mr. Silverstein had written - one that Mr. Pinkwater said he had found out about that week or something to that effect. Something by the title of "Where the Sidewalk Ends."
To think that Daniel Pinkwater is a resident "expert" on Children's Literature after that dismal Saturday commentary is only one example of why he cannot continue to be a commentator on this subject. He most certainly is amusing when he reads his own works, and so I hope Scott Simon will find a way to continue to feature him talking about his own books.
Perhaps Mr. Simon can even locate someone whose voice isn't already represented in published reviews and other radio features about Children's Literature, so the listening public can have access to a variety of informed opinions.
Hey, it's OK to write directly to me about this, too, whether or not you agree. However, remember that Ruth is the one who is leading the effort. Remember: druthgo at sonic.net
- Ginny (gmkruse at education.wisc.edu)
Received on Sun 01 Oct 2000 09:48:43 PM CDT
