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Dr. Laura Strikes AgainWithin a week of the September 11 debut of the syndicated Dr. Laura TV talk show, radio-advice guru Laura Schlessinger will carry her year-old crusade against ALA and public libraries’ age-neutral Internet policies to daytime television. Her September 15 show, titled “Lewd Libraries,” explores the perils of the Internet, and opens with a video taken by hidden camera of a teenaged Denver Public Library patron accessing an unsavory Web site and then borrowing an R-rated video. City Librarian Rick Ashton told American Libraries that the library was unaware of the event until Dr. Laura producer Warren Peters invited a library official to react to the tape on the air. The library declined, he said, because “by the time the offer was made, it was clear to everyone here that the whole thing was a setup.” The show’s scheduled guests include Robert Willard, executive director of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, and ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee member Michael Wessells, a librarian and fundamentalist pastor who has defended unfettered Internet access at library conferences around the country. Posted September 11, 2000. |
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