Open letter to Brock Meeks (fwd)

[Roy Tennant]

Brock is kindly permitting me to post his reply to my earlier message.
Roy

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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:31:20 -0700
From: Meeks, Brock <Brock.Meeks at MSNBC.COM>
To: 'Roy Tennant' <rtennant at library.berkeley.edu>
Subject: RE: Open letter to Brock Meeks

Thanks for your message.  I don't believe that I was "insinuating" the 
librarians are trying to stifle Burt, I simply reported what his Email 
looked like and they were not happy with him.  But stifle?  No.

As for debate, read the paragraph again... I'm not talking about 
*professional* debate; I'm talking about each library taking the debate to 
the public, to the people that pay their salaries and use their wonderful 
resources.

Have the librarians make their case to the public, not "preach to the 
choir" as it were.  If the community they serve agrees that that filtering 
is not for them, so be it.  But the debate should be with the public, as 
well as among professional.

Sorry if I insulted you, that wasn't' my intention at all.

--Brock