You are listening to it. KZYX has become the best source of unbiased local news and commercial-free programming for many miles around. Last month bookstores and libraries celebrated National Banned Books Week. Maybe you didn't know that all sorts of books still are being challenged or banned from school and library shelves. Among the most frequently challenged books are the Goosebumps series by R. L. Stein, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , and books by Maya Angelou, J. D. Salinger, Judy Blume and others.
Censorship takes many forms, some lethal.
In 1993 Reuters photo-journalist Dan Eldon was stoned to death by a Somali mob reacting against a UN bombing. His journals are the subject of a new book titled The Journey is the Destination , The Journals of Dan Eldon . In Algeria's civil war journalists are targeted for death. And in many places writers are intimidated or silenced. In Mendocino county, life goes on in its serene and beautiful way.