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Weekly’s Use of “F” Word Irks Missouri PatronSt. Louis area resident Richard Greathouse has called for Jefferson County (Mo.) Public Library to remove the free weekly Riverfront Times newspaper from distribution there, according to the June 24 suburban St. Louis Sunday Journal. Greathouse saw the paper while he took his 13-year-old son to the library’s Northwest branch to research birds, and complained to Library Director Pam Klipsch. “The content of this thing really upset me,” Greathouse said. “They use the ‘F’ word in there.” “We have many patrons who read the Riverfront Times for a variety of reasons,” Klipsch said. “I apologized to Mr. Greathouse and told him I was very sorry that he was offended. But [the RFT] is a legal publication and we live in a country where everyone is given a very wide latitude to pick and choose what we want to read or view and the question of taste is up to each individual to judge for himself or herself.” Klipsch told American Libraries that the library had received a few calls expressing support for her position and none in opposition. She also said that Greathouse had not taken any steps to have the paper removed beyond his verbal complaint. “It’s kind of ironic that in a country where we can say what we want, someone would want to muzzle a voice because he thinks it doesn’t conform to what he thinks a proper publication is,” Riverfront Times Editor Tom Finkel told the Journal. “As director of the library, [Klipsch] is striking a blow for an open society.” Posted on June 29, 2007. |
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