And all must be sweetness and light and sparkly unicorns dancing about pooping Happy Dust....

[ellid]

Because today's YA fiction is DARK and SCARY and will cause kids to HURT THEMSELVES unless their parents exercise CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!!!

I've never heard of this editorial writer, and I have no freaking idea the Wall Street Journal even has a YA or kiddie book reviewer since, you know, they're a financial newspaper and not exactly popular with the under-25 set. But it strikes me that someone who claims to be a specialist in children's literature should have at least a nodding acquaintance with the really dark stuff, like Hans Christian Anderson or Grimm's fairy tales, before she spouts off about the horrible, horrible, darkness of today's YA books.

*gah*

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[kaiz.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I think that when it comes to "Entertainment & Society" type 'news' the WSJ has long since jumped the shark. Pretty much every single non-business article they feature these days exhibits the same kind of breathless and/or salacious tone along with epically shoddy journalism. *disgrunted WSJ subscriber*