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Dr. Laura Continues Crusade against ALAOver the past four weeks, radio talk-show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger has repeated her allegation that the American Library Association promotes pornography. On her April 15 show, she had faulted ALA’s Teen Hoopla Web page for recommending the Go Ask Alice health-information site maintained by Columbia University. ALA wants “to make sure your children have easy access to pornography, under the guise of free speech,” she charged on a recent show. After reading a letter on the air from Filtering Facts President David Burt on May 11 that called on General Colin Powell to cancel his keynote appearance at the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans, Schlessinger, on her Web site, urged listeners to demonstrate “as a polite conservative voice” at the conference and ALA chapter meetings. In a May 5 letter to ALA Executive Director William Gordon, Schlessinger stated that “by advocating open access to hard-core smut, the ALA has constructed a protected haven to corrupt our innocent.” ALA President Ann Symons will hold a meeting with divisional presidents in Chicago May 16 to discuss the issue. Posted May 17, 1999. |
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