You are currently browsing the daily archive for January 10, 2009.
My blogroll has remained pretty constant (aka stagnant) since I begin this blog. I have my favorites and keep finding new favorites that I should add.
So over the next few weeks I’ll be updating, adding, and perhaps removing links.
Here’s one I’ve known about since I began blogging and kept meaning to add in: The Concertina Award site. Every year I post a notice about their awards…this will (I hope) save me time.
Check it out.
The 2009 Concertina Awards for outstanding videojournalism.
By the way…which of the following is the CORRECT way to spell the damn word?
Video Journalism video journalism
Video-Journalism video-journalism
VideoJournalism videojournalism
We really should come up with a standard cause some days it wrecks havoc with web searches.
An editorial in the Modesto Bee reveals more on the continuing saga of a struggle to ban the book “Bless Me, Ultima” from required reading at a high school in Newman, California.
Come on guys…play by the rules. I can understand community standards and allowing parental input. But it appears that the administrators and board in the district are ignoring their own protocol.
While I thoroughly disagree with books banning, it shouldn’t be this difficult. By the way, the main reason this came to my attention was not complaints about the banning – but about how the process was ignored.
Oh – and does this same parent (singular) who wants to act as a censor for every other child in the district carefully monitor all TV shows, video games, movies, songs, and every friend her child makes? Because there’s a whole lotta stuff out there that is far worse than “Bless Me, Ultima.” And without the life lessons that child could learn from this book.
On a happier note, “Bless Me” is one hot book at the school, where more students are checking it out (due to the contraversy) than ever.
Check out this cartoon from Baby Blues, which might help you make the connection with how censorship can motivate people to seek the truth.
(copyright Baby Blues 1/8/09)
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