Crazy dad modern book burner
Ok, that's taking some creative license, but the idea is the same: a Virginia father has freaked the hell out because his 16-year-old son brought home the novel "Perks of Being a Wallflower" from school. Apparently the book centers around a boy who is a freshman in high school, and explores issues like homosexuality and drugs
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I don't slam Fox because they reported it, I slam Fox because they lie and stretch the truth in the headline in an apparent attempt to bias the reader. The reporter seemed to do a good enough job.
"Controversial Book Infuriates Virginia Father, Leads to School Review" would have been far more accurate.
Even slipping in that the book includes sexual, even homosexual, themes would have been accurate: "Book with Gay Themes Infuriates..."
Calling the book explicit is just false (unless there's something about the book that people who've read it just aren't saying), or at least stretching the truth beyond reason. Calling it a banned book is certainly false in the context of this story, the book hadn't even been challenged in the school until Mr. Davis complained, it certainly hasn't been banned there.
And I think it's fair to say that News Corporation media venues have a reputation for inaccurate and inflammatory headlines, a reputation I agree with growing up seeing the front page of the New York Post every day on the newsstands.
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