The top left corner of Monday’s New York Times tackled the “book bans” in Idaho and Iowa. “Culture Wars Put Librarians On Front Lines,” warned the headline. “Combating Book Bans and Threats of Jail.” Reporter Elizabeth Williamson began with how a “Rainbow Squad” of teenagers caused a ruckus at the library in Post Falls, Idaho. This went on for 2,600-plus words and the entirety of page A-16.
But wait – what about “book bans” or challenges from the Left? Are those not News, too? It turns out that Williamson had another story – this time from Maine, where the lefties tried to stop the “anti-trans” book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier. But that story was about 800 words….and didn’t make the paper. That headline:
‘My Heart Sank’: In Maine, a Challenge to a Book, and to…
