Anchorage Daily News responds to controversy stirred up by April/May 2006 Humanity News edition

On Sunday, May 7, 2006 the Anchorage Daily News published three articles about the April/May edition of Alaska Humanity News. Our stories on the way Alaskan arts organizations refuse to make judgments on the basis of moral or spiritual criteria was upsetting to those organizations, and the Daily News—the principal media outlet that reviews and promotes them—took this opportunity to explore (and, to some extent, to defend) the ideas of the arts status quo. 

You can find the three articles they published here:

Art and morality: Article’s authors discuss high art and low spirituality

Artists, presenters bristle at idea of ‘objective standards,’ by Dawnell Smith

Nobody owns the franchise for truth and good taste, by Mark Baechtel

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