The Villager corrects its apology … apologizes for its incorrectness … or something … April 21, 2007

Okay, this is getting hilarious.

I had noted in my post on Thursday that the Wilton Villager had referred to the Times‘s correction as an “apology”. The Villager has now changed their website to refer to the Times item as a correction — but in so doing they didn’t offer a correction (or an apology) for their own subjective characterization.

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The Times‘s “apology” (?) for their Voices In Conflict article April 19, 2007

In an op-ed piece in the April 5 issue of the Wilton Bulletin, Barbara Alessi, whose objections led to the cancellation of Voices In Conflict, attacked Theater Arts teacher Bonnie Dickinson on the grounds that, among other things, Dickinson lied to the New York Times about her daughter’s involvement in the matter. In yesterday’s edition, the Times indirectly responded to Alessi’s charges about the accuracy of Alison’s Leigh Cowan’s original article.

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“Voices In Conflict: The Administrator’s Cut” April 13, 2007

Now that it’s official that a version of Voices In Conflict compiled and performed by the students of the Wilton High School Theater Arts II class will be performed in June in New York City and probably in Connecticut, the Wilton Board Of Education has announced the upcoming production of their version.

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“Voices In Conflict” goes to the Public Theater April 12, 2007

“Voices In Conflict” headed for the Public Theater

Canceled by Principal, Student Play Heads to Off Broadway

Students at a Connecticut high school whose principal canceled a play they were preparing on the Iraq war are now planning to perform the work in June in New York, at the Public Theater, a venerable Off Broadway institution, and at the Culture Project, which is known for staging politically provocative work. A third show at a Connecticut theater is also being discussed.

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“The true story of free speech in America” April 8, 2007

Some who claim to have been on “our side” of the “Voices In Conflict” issue are now saying that those who continue to post about it are “beating a dead horse” and should “move on”. After all, it’s been two whole weeks since the New York Times article. Hey, it’s getting boring. Don’t you have any more Derek and Clive videos?

To them, I commend a column by Robert Fisk from the London newspaper The Independent. Fisk has been the Independent‘s Middle East correspondent for almost thirty years. He is the author of The Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East.

At the end of his column, Fisk hits the nail on the head about why the “Voices in Conflict” scandal is emblematic and important. The blogger scarce got to this subject at MyLeftNutmeg before I did, and put it better than I could.

But these are my words: It is because of the Tim Cantys of America that we got into the war in Iraq; it will only be with the help of the Bonnie Dickinsons that we can get out.

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A fair and balanced “Voices In Conflict” April 7, 2007

Posting on MyLeftNutmeg yesterday, bigdavefromqueens published Principal Tim Canty’s version of “Voices In Conflict”:

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Defending censorship in Wilton April 6, 2007

While the Wilton school administration dithers and foot-drags their final decision about whether to permit an on-campus staging of the Theater Arts II class project “Voices In Conflict,” the family that single-handedly provoked the censorship is fighting back in print and online.

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“Work on the script and keep our options open” April 3, 2007

The following is direct from one of the students in the WHS Theater Arts II class (I’m not going to say who for obvious reasons):

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