Saturday, November 25, 2006
Clifford: a big, RED dog?
If readers of editorials published in The Australian throughout 2006 still need any convincing of the all-pervasive cultural influence of the soft-left in this country, then today's editorial should decide matters for them. Apparently, the major international educational publisher Scholastic pursues a left-leaning publishing policy, and is soft on terror:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20816387-7583,00.html
This editorial has left me alert and alarmed. It ineluctably establishes that the long march of the left through our cultural institutions has extended to the Australian arm of the world’s largest publisher of children’s books.
This multinational has a corporate mission to help children around the world to read and learn. But parents and teachers should be alert to the dangerous, left-leaning propaganda it is pedalling. Two titles given prominence on the corporation’s US web site give the game away: ‘Clifford the Big Red Dog’ and ‘I Spy’. And could that be a stick of gelignite ‘Captain Underpants’ has down the front of his jocks?
I was beginning to think that criticisms in The Australian of the ‘soft left’ were beginning to echo 'reds-under-the bed', cold war style paranoia. Not now. Where do I enlist for the culture wars?
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20816387-7583,00.html
This editorial has left me alert and alarmed. It ineluctably establishes that the long march of the left through our cultural institutions has extended to the Australian arm of the world’s largest publisher of children’s books.
This multinational has a corporate mission to help children around the world to read and learn. But parents and teachers should be alert to the dangerous, left-leaning propaganda it is pedalling. Two titles given prominence on the corporation’s US web site give the game away: ‘Clifford the Big Red Dog’ and ‘I Spy’. And could that be a stick of gelignite ‘Captain Underpants’ has down the front of his jocks?
I was beginning to think that criticisms in The Australian of the ‘soft left’ were beginning to echo 'reds-under-the bed', cold war style paranoia. Not now. Where do I enlist for the culture wars?
# posted by Mark H @ 8:15 am 
