Fahrenheit 451 not about censorship?
Ok, I understand that critics and over-enthusiastic term-paper writers will often misinterpret author works, but it has been commonly understood for decades that Ray Bradbury’s novel Farenheit 451 is about the dangers of censorship. And as someone who has read the novel, I don’t see how anyone can come away from that novel and think that this is not the case.
But according to an article in LA Weekly, Bradbury now claims that the novel has nothing to do with censorship, but rather it’s a warning against the evil of television.
His argument for why television is destroying literature is inane and anecdotal. Like others, my respect level for Bradbury has gone down several levels.
