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From: Monica Edinger <monicaedinger>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:44:24 -0500
Thank you, Eliza, for taking the time to write such an excellent and comprehensive request to the NY Times' public editor
(public at nytimes.com, ). I've written to support your request (pasted it below, ) and hope many others do too.
Monica
To the Public Editor:
I am writing to support the request of Professor Eliza T. Dresang that you investigate the article "With Single Word, a Children's Book Stirs a Battle."
I have been terribly disappointed in the New York Times, my local newspaper, for this article which provides quotes from those librarians offended (who haven't even read the book), but none from those who are not. The choice of quotes (especially the final "You won't find men's genitalia in quality literature." when the scrotum in question is a dog's) makes me feel the reporter was looking to amuse and shock, not to report a story in all its angles.
As I wrote at the end of my blog post on the issue (I'm a fourth grade teacher at the Dalton School here in NYC), "How very, very sad that it wasn't winning the Newbery that propelled Susan Patron to the front page of the New York Times, but a bunch of jittery librarians."
Yours, Monica Edinger
On 2/19/07, Eliza T. Dresang <edresang at mailer.fsu.edu> wrote:
> Julie
>
> I'd suggest a short message of your own to the public editor. As Liz
> suggested, there is power in numbers. I think something quick and
> easy from many would show there is a lot of support (and concern).
> Eliza
>
> At 8:52 PM -0500 2/19/07, Julia V. Holcomb wrote:
> >fairrosa wrote:
> >>Thanks, Eliza, for stating so eloquently and forcefully, what so many
> >>of us feel regarding this issue. Is there a way for us to add our
> >>virtual signatures on this letter so that it will show the NYT
> >>investigator that this is not a singular response but one supported by
> >>many?
> >An excellent idea--is there a way to do it? Julia PS Eliza's
> >letter is superb--
> >>
> >>On 2/19/07, JaneYolen at aol.com <JaneYolen at aol.com> wrote:
> >>>Hurrah, Eliza!
> >>>
> >>> Jane Yolen
> >>>_______________________________________________
> >>>child_lit mailing list
> >>>child_lit at email.rutgers.edu
> >>>https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/child_lit
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >--
> >Live your life with arms wide open!
> >Today is where your book begins:
> >the rest is still unwritten.
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >child_lit mailing list
> >child_lit at email.rutgers.edu
> >https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/child_lit
>
>
> --
> Eliza T. Dresang
> Eliza Atkins Gleason Professor
> College of Information
> Florida State University 32306-2100
> Phone: 850 644 5877
> FAX: 850 644 9763
> _______________________________________________
> child_lit mailing list
> child_lit at email.rutgers.edu
> https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/child_lit
>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:44:24 -0500
Thank you, Eliza, for taking the time to write such an excellent and comprehensive request to the NY Times' public editor
(public at nytimes.com, ). I've written to support your request (pasted it below, ) and hope many others do too.
Monica
To the Public Editor:
I am writing to support the request of Professor Eliza T. Dresang that you investigate the article "With Single Word, a Children's Book Stirs a Battle."
I have been terribly disappointed in the New York Times, my local newspaper, for this article which provides quotes from those librarians offended (who haven't even read the book), but none from those who are not. The choice of quotes (especially the final "You won't find men's genitalia in quality literature." when the scrotum in question is a dog's) makes me feel the reporter was looking to amuse and shock, not to report a story in all its angles.
As I wrote at the end of my blog post on the issue (I'm a fourth grade teacher at the Dalton School here in NYC), "How very, very sad that it wasn't winning the Newbery that propelled Susan Patron to the front page of the New York Times, but a bunch of jittery librarians."
Yours, Monica Edinger
On 2/19/07, Eliza T. Dresang <edresang at mailer.fsu.edu> wrote:
> Julie
>
> I'd suggest a short message of your own to the public editor. As Liz
> suggested, there is power in numbers. I think something quick and
> easy from many would show there is a lot of support (and concern).
> Eliza
>
> At 8:52 PM -0500 2/19/07, Julia V. Holcomb wrote:
> >fairrosa wrote:
> >>Thanks, Eliza, for stating so eloquently and forcefully, what so many
> >>of us feel regarding this issue. Is there a way for us to add our
> >>virtual signatures on this letter so that it will show the NYT
> >>investigator that this is not a singular response but one supported by
> >>many?
> >An excellent idea--is there a way to do it? Julia PS Eliza's
> >letter is superb--
> >>
> >>On 2/19/07, JaneYolen at aol.com <JaneYolen at aol.com> wrote:
> >>>Hurrah, Eliza!
> >>>
> >>> Jane Yolen
> >>>_______________________________________________
> >>>child_lit mailing list
> >>>child_lit at email.rutgers.edu
> >>>https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/child_lit
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >--
> >Live your life with arms wide open!
> >Today is where your book begins:
> >the rest is still unwritten.
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >child_lit mailing list
> >child_lit at email.rutgers.edu
> >https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/child_lit
>
>
> --
> Eliza T. Dresang
> Eliza Atkins Gleason Professor
> College of Information
> Florida State University 32306-2100
> Phone: 850 644 5877
> FAX: 850 644 9763
> _______________________________________________
> child_lit mailing list
> child_lit at email.rutgers.edu
> https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/child_lit
>
-- Monica Edinger The Dalton School New York NY monicaedinger at gmail.com my blog educating alice is at http://medinger.wordpress.comReceived on Tue 20 Feb 2007 04:44:24 AM CST
