[LM_NET] General: Another day, another stereotype

[David Bilmes <dudu4tigers@SNET.NET>]

Not content with having dragged LM_NET into the controversy over the Higher Power 
of Lucky with a front-page article a few weeks ago, the New York Times is now 
negatively portraying school librarians in today's sports section. The following is 
an excerpt from an article about the New York Rangers hockey game:

"For long stretches, Madison Square Garden fell as quiet as a school library before 
Valiquette and the Rangers showed the kind of spunk that they had rarely shown this 
season."

The Times does have a Public Editor, Byron Calame, who writes a twice-monthly 
column reflecting readers' concerns. Perhaps its time for LM_NET to bombard him 
with emails educating him about our profession (see below). His email is 
public@nytimes.com.

If you want to contact him about the hockey article mentioned above, it's in the 
March 4, 2007, sports section, and the headline is: Lundqvist Gets Rest, and Backup 
Saves Rangers.

The following is from: http://www.nytimes.com/top/opinion/thepubliceditor/index.html
A Word From the Public Editor Everything readers send to our mailbox will be read 
by me or my associate, Joseph Plambeck. If a reply is appropriate, you will hear 
from us shortly. If you do not wish your message to be relayed to other editors and 
reporters or published, please let us know. When referring to a specific article 
please include its date, section and headline. 


David Bilmes, LMS
Schaghticoke Middle School
New Milford, CT
bilmesd@new-milford.k12.ct.us
dudu4tigers@snet.net
www.new-milford.k12.ct.us/SMS/LMC

“When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only 
think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself."

Isaac Asimov

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