2008 Woodie Awards
Playboy book review misguided
Issue date: 10/9/06 Section: Letters to the editor
Monday, October 9, 2006
Of all the books you could review in the Sept. 25 issue you picked "Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion."
How in the name of all that's true and beautiful can you expect to generate respect for De Anza College as an educational institution, or for La Voz as a serious journal, when you make laughable choices like that?
I have supported The Foothill-De Anza College District for many years, but imagine my chagrin when I left my reading of the Times Literary Supplement, with its many reviews of books edifying and educational, to pick up your paper and find a tawdry piece about "shacking up."
Nobody's attacking your freedom to read what you wish, or even to mention what you read in print. But to focus exclusively on the prurient and ephemeral is a sad symptom of missed opportunities and misdirected attention.
Freedom of the press is posited on the responsibility to inform. Please make more responsible choices!
- Elizabeth Erickson
Of all the books you could review in the Sept. 25 issue you picked "Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion."
How in the name of all that's true and beautiful can you expect to generate respect for De Anza College as an educational institution, or for La Voz as a serious journal, when you make laughable choices like that?
I have supported The Foothill-De Anza College District for many years, but imagine my chagrin when I left my reading of the Times Literary Supplement, with its many reviews of books edifying and educational, to pick up your paper and find a tawdry piece about "shacking up."
Nobody's attacking your freedom to read what you wish, or even to mention what you read in print. But to focus exclusively on the prurient and ephemeral is a sad symptom of missed opportunities and misdirected attention.
Freedom of the press is posited on the responsibility to inform. Please make more responsible choices!
- Elizabeth Erickson
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