15th Dec 2002
‘Writers on America’ Banned in America?
I was lying in bed this morning listening to the NPR Sunday morning news and I heard a piece (Real Audio file) about a new book the State Department has commissioned and released titled ‘Writers on America’ (as featured on the State Department site) which features a number of prominent (e.g. Richard Ford) and not-so-prominent American writers (of various ethnic backgrounds) reflecting on what it means to be a writer in America. The book is meant to be distributed around the world to help students and other readers form a more balanced view of this country.
Nothing about the story really caught my attention till host Liane Hansen concluded the story with this note:
And a final word, Writers on America is not available in the United States. Domestic distrubiton of government information intended for foreign audiences is prohibited by law.
Does anyone besides me think that should have been the lead of this story?
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