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National Banned Book Week Has a Lot to Observe This Year

Posted on September 23, 2024 by Ralph Hanson

Editor’s Note: This week is the American Library Association’s Banned Book Week. The following blog post looks at a history of book challenges in the US and how these efforts have massively escalated in the 2020s. Books are capable of … Continue reading →

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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe) – Smartphone privacy, SCOTUS leaks, scholastic censorship, COVID-19 & stress release

Posted on May 6, 2022 by Ralph Hanson

Lots of questions need to be asked and answered this week: Would your smartphone know if you had an abortion? Quite possibly, and that information would likely be for sale.  Would your smartphone know if you had an abortion? There … Continue reading →

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News About News: Campaign money, Shep Smith & Fox, Charges Dropped for Goodman, and Death Threats at AZ Republic

Posted on October 18, 2016 by Ralph Hanson

There’s been a lot of news about the news coverage of politics in the last few days.  Here are several that I think we should be paying attention to: When journalists give money to the presidential campaign, they give it to … Continue reading →

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Trying to Control the News

Posted on December 3, 2015 by Ralph Hanson

There’ve been several stories over the last few days of governments attempting to control the news.  Here are links to two of them: Judge forces Florida paper to “unpublish” information According to Columbia Journalism Review, a judge in Florida has … Continue reading →

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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Ralph Hanson

Is it ok for high school students to “<3 Boobies”? Yes. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from a Pennsylvania school district that wanted to stop two young women from wearing “I <3 Boobies” bracelets … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 4 – Threats against authors

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Ralph Hanson

Although the story about death threats against author Salman Rushdie are relatively well known, many other authors around the world face threats of death or injury as well: LA Times: Author Salman Rushdie hardly alone in raising government concerns The … Continue reading →

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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

Is this the year of 3D TV? Probably not.  And despite reports, last year wasn’t either. Does the world need a version of Huckleberry Finn without the “N-word” in it? Probably not. Though people have been looking for ways to … Continue reading →

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