Poor little Johnny. He would have become a lifelong reader, scaling the heights of Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky. But no. His local school library didn’t have any more graphic novels or manga for him to read. So he lost interest in the printed word. Now he bags groceries for a living.
Such a story might sound patently ridiculous, but that’s exactly what the leftist corporate media want you to think about recent changes in our nation’s libraries. “Schools are struggling to keep their shelves stocked as oversight by parents and school boards intensifies,” says a recent front-page article in The Washington Post. Author Hannah Natanson claims that libraries in Florida, Pennsylvania, Texas, and elsewhere are purchasing thousands fewer books, and those innocent students — all of them voracious readers in training — are caught in the middle.
Indeed, if legacy media are to be believed, America is facing a plague of censorship that is soon to rival that described in “Fahrenheit 451.”
“As Book Bans Soar, Students Are Joining the Fight Against Censorship,” declared a Connecticut NBC affiliate. “Facing pressure to ban books, suburban libraries’ becoming a battlefield for the First Amendment,’” reported the Chicago Sun-Times. “Let libraries be libraries, without political meddling,” urged the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Yet scratch the surface of this scaremongering narrative, and you’ll perceive that these claims are not only overblown but deeply misrepresentative of broader trends regarding children’s literacy in the United States.
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