Censorship wars: Why have several communities voted to defund their public libraries?

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Some school libraries have been forced to remove controversial books. The threat now is on public libraries, where some communities have recently taken another step -- they've voted to defund their local libraries. Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Patrick Sweeney and George M. Johnson join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:19.1	This is on point.
0:23.1	I'm Megna Chakrabardi.
0:24.7	Just a quick quiz for you here.
0:26.1	Do you know where your local library is?
0:29.4	Your local public library.
0:31.6	Chances are you definitely do because in 2019,
0:36.2	Americans visited their public libraries 1.2 billion times.
0:43.0	That's almost 10 times the number of people
0:45.2	who went to a baseball game or an NBA game or a hockey game
0:49.8	or an NFL game that same year all combined.
0:54.5	And in nearly three fourths of all American states,
0:57.5	half or more of the people who live in the library's service area
1:01.8	have library cards, meaning despite the internet and electronic books
1:07.4	and everything that's at the tip of your fingers with Google,
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