Letters asking a school to return Maureen Johnson's The Bermudez Triangle to its shelves (2007)
ask · status: reported back · last event: result reported (2007-05-08) · owner: John
In May 2007 John posted the email addresses of a school committee that had pulled Maureen Johnson's The Bermudez Triangle and asked viewers to write to them. Six days later he reported the letters seemed to have worked: the book was halfway unbanned, pending the superintendent's decision.
Parts: John: return to defending intellectual freedom on Brotherhood 2.0 next week (2007)
Told alongside: Hank's crush on Helen Hunt (2007) · 'In your pants' suffix game (2007)
About: Maureen Johnson, The Bermudez Triangle, Bartlesville Mid-High School
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-05-02 | asked | John asks viewers who agree to email the school committee (addresses posted below the video) that they won't stand for the ban of The Bermudez Triangle. | Brotherhood 2.0: May 2: Book Banning 00:01:38 |
| 2007-05-03 | thanks | Hank thanks viewers for standing up for the librarians and for Maureen after John's book-banning video, which he thinks drew record comments. → refers to Brotherhood 2.0: May 2: Book Banning · also in: May 3rd Extended Edition | May 3rd: Yetis, TMBG, Weeds and MoJo 00:02:17 |
| 2007-05-08 | result reported | John reports the letters seem to have worked: The Bermudez Triangle is halfway unbanned, pending the superintendent's decision. (hedged) | Brotherhood 2.0: May 8th: House Hunters 00:01:12 |
What is said about it
5 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2007-05-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 2: Book Banning — John reports that Maureen Johnson, whom he calls a fan of the show and 'future secret sister', has had her book The Bermudez Triangle banned in Oklahoma. — 00:00:52
- 2007-05-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 2: Book Banning — John asks Bartlesville Mid-High School whether it will also ban Bridget Jones's Diary, The Color Purple, No Exit, Brideshead Revisited, Angels in America and The Picture of Dorian Gray. — 00:01:38
- 2007-05-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 2: Book Banning — ask: John: If the committee doesn't reply, John tells Hank they can call them on Friday; he has their phone numbers. — 00:02:18
- 2007-05-03 · May 3rd: Yetis, TMBG, Weeds and MoJo — Hank thinks he may buy The Bermudez Triangle to see what all the fuss is about. (hedged) — 00:02:17 · also in: May 3rd Extended Edition
- 2007-05-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 8th: House Hunters — John says the letters seem to have worked; it now depends on whether the school superintendent agrees the book should stay on the shelves. (hedged) — 00:01:12