Because of past complaints, the magazine made the decision not to send the Feb. 14 edition to 21,000 "institutional subscribers" last month. They included some public schools and the New York Public Library system."I have never seen this type of thing before in my life," said Judith Krug, director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom of the 66,000-member American Library Association. "It's upsetting because No. 1, we basically have a contractual relationship with (parent company) Time Inc. We have bought and paid for a year's worth of issues and they have decided that millions of our patrons won't have access to it."
Excuse me but IF the libraries paid for a year's worth of issues of the magazine what right does the magazine company have to decide they are not entitled to receive it because some wacko's complained about it.
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I disagree with Judith Krug on a lot of things. This time, however, I agree it's an odd situation.
Now I don't know what to call it, but it is NOT censorship, a word too often used incorrectly to push a point of view.
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