January 12, 2005

Mississippi un-banning . . .

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Although one member protested that “Our libraries are not a trash bin for pornographic materials,” he was overruled and the board of the Jackson-George Regional Library System voted 5-2 to reverse its ban of Jon Stewart‘s America: The Book, according to an Associated Press wire story (here carried in the Biloxi Sun Herald). The move comes a day after the ban drew world-wide attention to the Mississippi library system. Director Robert Willits noted, “We got some absolutely nasty e-mails and telephone calls that you would not believe,” Willits said.

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.

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