![]() And it usually costs around 15 cents per picture on sites like Target or Shutterfly (that’s their best “bulk” price), so for 700 prints it would be $105! But you’d still need to buy albums if you were doing it the old school way (at Target they’re around $15 for each album, and they typically hold 200 photos, so to store 700 you’d need four albums! So to get a nice custom made book for $45.99 versus spending $165 for traditional prints & albums – well, we’re down. Which is a TON of photos for each year, but we’re snap-happy like that. If you do the math, 100 pages of photos with an average of 7 photos per page = 700 photos. But we imagine that even after a decade of yearbook-making we’ll be able to easily store (or display) ten or more of them in a nice little stack, as opposed to a decade’s worth of photo albums, which could easily take up an entire shelf.Īnd when it comes to cost, hello money in my pocket. In June, Davis School District in the state removed the holy book on the grounds it contained passages of "vulgarity and violence.Three photo albums wouldn’t be nearly as thin and easily storable or displayable (their pages are thicker and their bindings are huge). The same month, a parent in Utah challenged the state's ban on books in school libraries that are deemed pornographic by calling for the Bible to be removed on the grounds it was "one of the most sex-ridden books around," provoking the ire of local Christians. While not attributing the bulk of the censorship to any one political faction, Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA's office for intellectual freedom, said the primary aim was to "suppress" voices "traditionally excluded from our nation's conversations, such as people in the LGBTQIA+ community or people of color." In March, the America Library Association (ALA) reported that a record number of demands to censor library books had been lodged in 2022, with 2,571 separate titles targeted-a 38 percent increase from 2021. ![]() In January, a school board in Virginia removed 21 titles from school libraries, citing their supposed adult content, including acclaimed works by Margaret Atwood, Stephen King and Toni Morrison. Not surprising Target isn't interested in selling a book the title of which slurs a huge chunk of its customer base." However, there were several Twitter users who backed Target, with one tweeting: "The book is literally called The Democrat Party Hates America. "Target has built up so much goodwill with conservatives that I'm sure they won't mind." "Not to worry," Ted Cruz, the junior Republican senator for Texas, wrote on Twitter. "In case you needed another reason to boycott Target," tweeted The Blaze, an online conservative outlet first launched by right-wing radio host Glenn Beck. This is simply another form of censorship." "I've read every book he's written and listen to his show routinely. "Let's give Mark Levin a big lift here," General Mike Flynn, the short-lived former national security adviser under Donald Trump, wrote in response. ![]() Other notable figures on the right showed their support for Levin following his accusations of corporate censorship. Imagine that! So, the corporatist leftwing censorship begins. It claims that certain customers might be offended by the title. Target has informed my publisher, Simon & Schuster, that it will not carry my new book when it is released on September 19. It adds that the former Reagan administration lawyer "proves that since its establishment, the Democrat Party has set out to rewrite history and destroy the foundation of freedom in America." ![]() The book's synopsis says it "picks up where he left off" with his last work, American Marxist, which spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list when released in 2021. Later the same evening, he reiterated that the retailer was refusing to carry the book "because it might offend Democrats." He added: "Pathetic." Imagine that! So, the corporatist left-wing censorship begins." "It claims that certain customers might be offended by the title. ![]() "Target has informed my publisher, Simon & Schuster, that it will not carry my new book when it is released on September 19," Levin wrote in a tweet. The chain has refused to stock Levin's book in its stores. From left: The Target logo hangs outside of a store on Novemin Chicago, Illinois and author and radio host Mark Levin attends Radio Hall Of Fame 2018 Induction Ceremony at Guastavino's on Novemin New York City. ![]()
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