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RIP Society of the Day: The surest sign yet that the world is coming to an unceremonious close, courtesy of Publisher’s Weekly (by way of Blogtown):
It’s become a tradition that, the day after the Youth Media awards are announced at ALA’s midwinter meeting, the Newbery and Caldecott Medal winners, along with an ALA representative, are interviewed live on the Today Show, at NBC’s studios in New York City. But this past Tuesday, those hoping to catch the first nationally televised interviews with Clare Vanderpool and Erin Stead were disappointed. For the first time in 11 years, there was no special coverage featuring the Newbery and Caldecott Medalists. With the national television news outlets providing wall-to-wall media coverage since Saturday of the tragedy in Tucson, it’s not surprising that two children’s book award winners would be overlooked during a week of breaking news. But, to some who tuned into the Today Show on Tuesday morning expecting to see the Newbery and Caldecott Medalists, insult seemed added to injury. The program did indeed take a break from its coverage of the shootings during the second hour to interview an author. But it was an author who’s not likely to win a prestigious literary award any time soon: Nicole Polizzi, better known to the world as Snooki.
Adding self-immolation to insult, Snooki took to Twitter yesterday to announce that she was now a New York Times bestselling author (although she is nowhere to be found on the actual list). 2011 is the new 2012.
[blogtown / photo: superficial.]
Wow, that’s some horseshit.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfc53dMPmr1qzpwi0o1_r1_500.jpg)
RIP Society of the Day: The surest sign yet that the world is coming to an unceremonious close, courtesy of Publisher’s Weekly (by way of Blogtown):
It’s become a tradition that, the day after the Youth Media awards are announced at ALA’s midwinter meeting, the Newbery and Caldecott Medal winners, along with an ALA representative, are interviewed live on the Today Show, at NBC’s studios in New York City. But this past Tuesday, those hoping to catch the first nationally televised interviews with Clare Vanderpool and Erin Stead were disappointed. For the first time in 11 years, there was no special coverage featuring the Newbery and Caldecott Medalists. With the national television news outlets providing wall-to-wall media coverage since Saturday of the tragedy in Tucson, it’s not surprising that two children’s book award winners would be overlooked during a week of breaking news. But, to some who tuned into the Today Show on Tuesday morning expecting to see the Newbery and Caldecott Medalists, insult seemed added to injury. The program did indeed take a break from its coverage of the shootings during the second hour to interview an author. But it was an author who’s not likely to win a prestigious literary award any time soon: Nicole Polizzi, better known to the world as Snooki.
Adding self-immolation to insult, Snooki took to Twitter yesterday to announce that she was now a New York Times bestselling author (although she is nowhere to be found on the actual list). 2011 is the new 2012.
[blogtown / photo: superficial.]
Wow, that’s some horseshit.
